Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

►Last week’s record-breaking warm weather ushered in a number of signs of early spring, including the arrival of a number of freshwater ducks, migrant turkey vultures, and fish crows appearing in places where they have been absent all winter, and small groups of red-winged blackbirds and common grackles at several sites. More unusual was the appearance of two mew gulls at Kings Beach on the Nahant-Lynn town line; one of the gulls was the same Icelandic-banded gull seen there last winter. Equally unusual was a slaty-backed gull in the vicinity of the Jodrey Fish Pier in Gloucester.

►Plum Island: Reports from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge featured four gadwalls, a Eurasian wigeon, a northern shoveler, 30 northern pintails, 50 green-winged teal, an American woodcock, at least three snowy owls, 60 snow buntings, and small numbers of red-winged blackbirds.

►Salisbury: Two bald eagles, a snowy owl, and a pileated woodpecker were spotted.

►Cape Ann: Reports included 12 common murres, eight thick-billed murres, and an Atlantic puffin at Andrews Point in Rockport. Two more thick-billed murres were seen in Nahant.

►Concord: At Great Meadows Refuge, recently arrived waterfowl included 15 wood ducks, four northern shovelers, five American wigeon, 11 northern pintails, 15 ring-necked ducks, nine common goldeneyes, and nine hooded mergansers.

►Miscellaneous: Highlights included a cackling goose in Dighton; a greater white-fronted goose and two common ravens at the Arlington Reservoir; a king eider in Cohasset; two Barrow’s goldeneyes in Boston Harbor off the UMass Harborwalk; 19 northern pintails at the Topsfield Fair Grounds; single snowy owls in Fairhaven, Westport, and South Dartmouth; and 12 eastern meadowlarks at Cumberland Farms fields in Middleborough.

For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.mass-audubon.org.