Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

With the first intensely cold weather of the season last week, reports of some species began to diminish. Waterfowl that had been concentrated on open freshwater were among the first to start moving. Nonetheless, several unusual species were still being reported, including single pink-footed geese in various open fields near Nine Acre Corner and Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord; another pink-footed goose in Ipswich; a tufted duck at Kenoza Lake in Haverhill; two white-winged doves near Fenway Victory Gardens in Boston; and a western tanager at Dunback Meadow in Arlington.

►Plum Island: Reports from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge included a rough-legged hawk, 20 razorbills, and 17 crossbills.

►Salisbury: Sightings included a Barrow’s goldeneye and 13 red crossbills.

►Gloucester: A great egret was spotted near Good Harbor Beach. A northern shrike was observed at Eastern Point Wildlife Sanctuary.

►Saugus: A report from Bear Creek Park included two short-eared owls, a merlin, 100 horned larks, and three eastern meadowlarks.

►Miscellaneous: Reports this week included a snow goose and a late Nashville warbler in Newburyport; 60 wood ducks and two bald eagles near Leverett Pond and Jamaica Pond in Boston; a canvasback at Great Pond in Braintree; 31 red-necked grebes in Winthrop; an American bittern and an ovenbird at Horn Pond in Woburn; a late osprey in Mansfield; five bald eagles at the Middlesex Fells Reservation’s Spot Pond in Stoneham; a red-shouldered hawk in South Boston; three sandhill cranes at Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area in Hanson, a sandhill crane in Swansea; a glaucous gull at Sunset Lake in Braintree; a snowy owl at Plymouth Beach in Plymouth; five short-eared owls in Middleborough; two bohemian waxwings at New England BioLabs in Ipswich; and two painted buntings on Nantucket.

For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call MassAudubon at 781-259-8805 or go to www. massaudubon.org