Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:
Outstanding reports last week included a Ross’s goose on Nantucket; a greater white-fronted goose at Franklin Park in Boston; a cackling goose in Rochester; an ash-throated flycatcher on Great Neck Road in Wareham; the continued presence of a Bell’s vireo at the Shipyard Farm Conservation Area in Fairhaven; a hooded warbler near Chestnut Reservoir in Brookline; a Cape May warbler in Wellesley; a western tanager in Westwood; and summer tanagers in South Dartmouth and Plymouth.
►Plum Island: At Parker River National Wildlife Refuge were 50 gadwalls, five red-necked grebes, 12 razorbills, four snowy owls, a short-eared owl, a yellow-bellied sapsucker, a white-eyed vireo, three hermit thrushes, an orange-crowned warbler, and 15 red crossbills.
►Ipswich: Tallied at Clark Pond were 84 gadwalls, a Eurasian wigeon, 96 American wigeons, nine northern shovelers, and a marsh wren.
►Rockport: A seawatch at Andrew’s Point produced tallies of two great shearwaters, 142 common murres, three thick-billed murres, and 18 Atlantic puffins.
►Nantucket: Reported were a Ross’s goose, a tufted duck, a white-eyed vireo, a blue-headed vireo, and a late magnolia warbler.
►Miscellaneous: Reports featured single Barrow’s goldeneyes at Lake Massapoag in Sharon, Deer Island in Boston Harbor, at Fort Phoenix Reservation in Fairhaven, and Great Pond in Randolph; 15 black vultures in Blackstone; a northern goshawk in Scituate; snowy owls in Ware, Gooseberry Neck in Westport, and Plymouth Beach; a house wren in Cambridge; grasshopper sparrows in Cohasset and Brookfield; an indigo bunting in Marshfield; and 16 white-winged crossbills at Mount Watatic in Ashburnham.
For information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.mass-audubon.org.