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Bird Sightings
A hooded merganser.
A Magnolia warbler. (Lillian Stokes)

Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

?Plum Island: Reports from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge last week included a northern shoveler, an alder flycatcher, a summer tanager, a grasshopper sparrow, a salt marsh sparrow, 13 bobolinks, three orchard orioles, and several species of warblers.

?Canton: A report from Fowl Meadow featured two willow flycatchers, an Acadian flycatcher, a least bittern, a yellow-billed cuckoo, 14 blue-gray gnatcatchers, two northern waterthrushes, and nine rose-breasted grosbeaks.

?Cambridge: In Mount Auburn Cemetery there were many migrant warblers, with American redstarts, magnolia warblers, and Canada warblers being especially numerous.

?Concord: At Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge there were two hooded mergansers, a least bittern, two Virginia rails, a black-billed cuckoo, four willow flycatchers, 11 warbling vireos, and 31 marsh wrens.

?Hingham: A half-day survey of Wompatuck State Park produced a ruffed grouse, nine yellow-billed cuckoos, two pileated woodpeckers, three yellow-throated vireos, 17 blue-gray gnatcatchers, 54 veeries, two Swainson’s thrushes, 24 wood thrushes, 164 ovenbirds, two worm-eating warblers, 56 black-and-white warblers, 31 scarlet tanagers, and eight indigo buntings.

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.