Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Last week there were reports of large flocks of southward-moving blackbird flocks, along with the arrival of snow buntings at various coastal locations. And last Sunday, a tremendous movement of sea ducks and seabirds along the backside of Cape Cod was noted all the way from East Orleans to Chatham. Most notable were the estimated totals of 12,000 common eiders, 18,000 black scoters, 5,000 great shearwaters, 60 sooty shearwaters, 120 Manx shearwaters, 3,000 northern gannets, 400 black-legged kittiwakes, and 550 Bonaparte’s gulls.

►Plum Island: Reports from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge featured 60 American wigeons, 250 northern pintails, 400 green-winged teal, nine great egrets, 330 black-bellied plovers, a piping plover, 900 dunlin, a barred owl, a yellow-bellied sapsucker, two white-eyed vireos, a red-eyed vireo, a hooded warbler, and 40 snow buntings.

►Groton: Sightings included a clay-colored sparrow, two white-crowned sparrows, 400 red-winged blackbirds, and 600 common grackles.

►Manomet: Noted were a red-shouldered hawk, a group of swallows that included several tree swallows, four barn swallows, a cave swallow,a blue-gray gnatcatcher, and a Baltimore oriole.

►Westport: At Gooseberry Neck, migrants included two white-eyed vireos, several tree swallows, a snow bunting, three orange-crowned warblers, and a northern parula.

►Nantucket: Recent reports included a cattle egret, a Hudsonian godwit, a white-eyed vireo, a rose-breasted grosbeak, and an indigo bunting.

►Miscellaneous: Reports included a cackling goose at Wards Fields in Sharon; a tundra swan on Farrar Pond in Lincoln; a barrow’s goldeneye on the Sudbury Reservoir in Framingham; a brown pelican in Nahant; a blue-gray gnatcatcher at Marblehead Neck; a dickcissel in Easton; and a western tanager along Kilmartin Path in Winthrop.

For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massa-chusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.mass-audubon.org.