Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

?Plum Island: A report from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge featured a green-winged teal, a short-eared owl, a merlin, and a palm warbler.

?Winthrop: A western grebe first sighted in early February off of Winthrop Shore Drive was still present this week, along with three American oystercatchers on nearby Snake Island.

?Peabody: There was a report of nine wood ducks, 19 gadwalls, 34 ring-necked ducks, two eastern phoebes, and four fox sparrows.

?Braintree: Noted at Great Pond were a double-crested cormorant, 35 ring-necked ducks, eight turkey vultures, three red-shouldered hawks, and two fox sparrows.

?Miscellaneous: Reports included great egrets in Beverly and Ipswich; 63 ruddy ducks at Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Brighton; the continued presence of a sandhill crane in the corn fields on Walnut Street in East Bridgewater; two great horned owls at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge; a snowy owl at Columbia Point in Dorchester; a peregrine falcon and four common ravens over the Boston University bridge; chipping sparrows in Arlington, Milton, Norwell, Wrentham, and Rochester; and two rusty blackbirds in Lakeville.

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.