Recent sightings from the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

►Hanson: A report from the Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area included an American bittern, 12 great egrets, two green herons, an adult king rail with two downy chicks, a Virginia rail, two sandhill cranes, three willow flycatchers, seven marsh wrens, a blue-gray gnatcatcher, a northern waterthrush, a field sparrow, and an orchard oriole.

► Plum Island: Sightings from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge included two pied-billed grebes, 136 snowy egrets, an American avocet, 27 lesser yellowlegs, 3,500 semipalmated sandpipers, 14 white-rumped sandpipers, four stilt sandpipers, 53 short-billed dowitchers, and two Forster’s terns.

► Gardner: Reports featured an American bittern, two green herons, two black-billed cuckoos, and one barred owl.

►Nahant: Sightings included 850 semipalmated sandpipers, a western sandpiper, and 127 Bonaparte’s gulls.

►Miscellaneous: Reports included a brant goose at Belle Isle Marsh Reservation in East Boston; three yellow-crowned night herons and three red-shouldered hawks at Milton Landing; another yellow-crowned night heron in Gloucester; 50 glossy ibises in Essex; four white-rumped sandpipers at Quinapoxet Reservoir in Holden; a bridled tern off Tuckernuck at Nantucket; and two black skimmers at Norton’s Point on Martha’s Vineyard.

For more information or to report sightings, call 781-259-8805 or go to massaudubon.org.