Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

►Plum Island: Highlights from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge featured 17 great egrets, 112 snowy egrets, 55 glossy ibises, 500 semipalmated plovers, 73 greater and 35 lesser yellowlegs, four whimbrels, 800 semipalmated, 110 least, and three white-rumped sandpipers, three dunlin, five stilt sandpipers, 255 short-billed dowitchers, an American woodcock, a Caspian tern, five roseate terns, both yellow-billed and black-billed cuckoos, 14 red-breasted nuthatches, eight brown thrashers, 92 cedar waxwings, a blue-winged warbler, a yellow-rumped warbler, two scarlet tanagers, six rose-breasted grosbeaks, and 16 orchard orioles.

►Concord: A report from Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge included a least bittern, a snowy egret, three great egrets, two green herons, a glossy ibis, and two Virginia rails.

►East Boston: At Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, observations included 25 great egrets, a Virginia rail, nine American oystercatchers, two stilt sandpipers, a great horned owl, an American kestrel, a peregrine falcon, and two common ravens.

►Miscellaneous: A great cormorant was spotted at Gooseberry Neck in Westport; two great egrets, a little blue heron, and six solitary sandpipers at Whitney Pond in Winchendon; eight little blue herons and a whip-poor-will in West Gloucester; a yellow-crowned night heron at Green Harbor in Marshfield; both Virginia rails and soras at Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield; two Baird’s sandpipers at Crane Beach in Ipswich; a ruff near the Newburyport Harbor boat ramp; a merlin at Nantucket; and a blue grosbeak at Cumberland Farms in Middleborough.

For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call MassAudubon at 781-259-8805 or go to www.mass-audubon.org.