Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

?Saugus: A fork-tailed flycatcher was discovered at Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary on Wednesday. This area is closed to the public, but tours may be arranged if the bird remains.

?Plum Island: Reports included 18 gadwalls, two northern shovelers, seven green-winged teals, 220 double-crested cormorants, 27 great egrets, 14 snowy egrets, six osprey, 42 willets, a red knot, 132 semipalmated sandpipers, four short-billed dowitchers, 65 least terns, 25 roseate terns, and 1,500 common terns. Land birds reported there included an olive-sided flycatcher, five willow flycatchers, 25 eastern kingbirds, 15 purple martins, 12 marsh wrens, 45 gray catbirds, nine brown thrashers, 15 common yellowthroats, 10 American redstarts, 60 yellow warblers, and 10 saltmarsh sparrows.

?Concord: A census of the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge yielded 28 wood ducks, five hooded mergansers, two least bitterns, 16 Virginia rails, three Soras, a black-billed cuckoo, three eastern kingbirds, 14 marsh wrens, eight yellow warblers, and 12 swamp sparrows.

?Ipswich: Birds sighted at Willowdale State Forest included five eastern wood-pewees, three great crested flycatchers, seven red-eyed vireos, a hermit thrush, six wood thrushes, 30 ovenbirds, 10 pine warblers, seven scarlet tanagers, and three rose-breasted grosbeaks. At Crane Beach, a ruff was spotted.

?Miscellaneous: Reports included mourning warblers at Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary and an olive-sided flycatcher in Marblehead; eight common terns at the Amelia Earhart Dam in Everett; two king rails at the Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area in Hanson; four clapper rails in Fairhaven; a yellow-breasted chat at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield; and a late magnolia warbler in Brewster.

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.