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Bird sightings

Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Cape Cod: Sightings included semipalmated plovers, greater and lesser yellowlegs, whimbrels, ruddy turnstones, red knots, sanderlings, semipalmated and least sandpipers, and short-billed dowitchers.

Plum Island: Reports from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge featured 37 great egrets, 22 glossy ibises, 125 lesser yellowlegs, 115 least sandpipers, 200 semipalmated sandpipers, two stilt sandpipers, two roseate terns, an American kestrel, a peregrine falcon, and six orchard orioles.

Concord: A report from Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge included a least bittern, three great egrets, two green herons, a glossy ibis, two Virginia rails, a solitary sandpiper, seven willow flycatchers, 24 marsh wrens, and four blue-gray gnatcatchers.

Hanson: Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area hosted a few sandhill cranes, as well as a Virginia rail, a yellow-billed cuckoo, 18 eastern phoebes, a willow flycatcher, eight purple martins, hundreds of post-breeding tree swallows, 20 marsh wrens, five blue-gray gnatcatchers, and three orchard orioles.

Westport: Recent sightings at Gooseberry Neck included an upland sandpiper, three roseate terns, two black-billed cuckoos, eight ruby-throated hummingbirds, and a pine siskin.

Miscellaneous: A little blue heron and four glossy ibises were spotted at Hobbs Brook Reservoir in Lexington; a yellow-crowned night heron in Gloucester and three more in Dartmouth; two common nighthawks in Brookline; and an early Tennessee warbler at the Nobscot Scout Reservation in Sudbury.

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