Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:
?Provincetown: A yellow-billed loon remained at Race Point Beach as recently as Friday. There were also multiple red-throated loons, a mew gull, a laughing gull, a lesser black-backed gull, two glaucous gulls, 20 Iceland gulls, 13 common murres, three thick-billed murres, 80 razorbills, a snowy owl, and two common ravens.
?Plum Island: Reports from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge included four brants, 30 gadwalls, six northern pintails, six green-winged teals, 15 purple sandpipers, a snowy owl, and a merlin.
?Lincoln: At Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, there were reports of two wood ducks, 11 killdeer, a tree swallow, and a fox sparrow.
?Concord: At Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, there were 30 wood ducks, two northern pintails, 15 ring-necked ducks, a bald eagle, three American coots, three killdeer, two marsh wrens, and three rusty blackbirds.
?Miscellaneous: Reports featured several piping plovers at Duxbury Beach and Plymouth Beach; three American oystercatchers, a common gallinule, and an eastern phoebe in Nantucket; an Iceland gull in Plymouth; two bald eagles in Milton; and several fox sparrows at Franklin Park and the Arnold Arboretum in Boston.
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.
