Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

The mild weather last week ushered in several red-shouldered hawks, a number of killdeer and American woodcocks, an early tree swallow, several migrant flocks of snow buntings, small flocks of red-winged blackbirds and common grackles, and several purple finches.

►Plum Island: Reports from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge included two killdeer, a rough-legged hawk, a peregrine falcon, 30 razorbills, a barred owl, a short-eared owl, and a northern shrike.

►Ipswich: Reports from Appleton Farms included a red-headed woodpecker, two pileated woodpeckers, and two evening grosbeaks.

►Rockport: Two thick-billed murres were seen at Folly Cove.

►Gloucester: A thick-billed murre was observed at the Jodrey State Fish Pier and a king eider was seen at Bass Rocks Golf Club.

►Saugus: Reports from Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary included a bald eagle, a rough-legged hawk, four short-eared owls, and two American pipits.

►Nantucket: Reports featured a tufted duck, a sora, and a dickcissel.

►Middleborough: Observed at the Cumberland Farms fields were a rough-legged hawk, three or four short-eared owls, a tree swallow, and a vesper sparrow.

►Miscellaneous: Reports included a Ross’s goose at Arcade Pond and Whitins Pond in Whitinsville; a redhead at the Cambridge Reservoir in Waltham; a tufted duck at Pocksha Pond in Middleborough; a Barrow’s goldeneye on Lake Assawompsett in Lakeville; red-shouldered hawks in Milton, Hanson, Rehoboth, and Concord; seven killdeer in Essex; a glaucous gull in Lunenburg; the continued presence of two white-winged doves in the Fenway Victory Garden; a northern shrike at Orange Airport; three winter wrens at Cold Spring Park in Newton; two orange-crowned warblers in Arnold Arboretum; and a yellow-breasted chat in Nahant.

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.