Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

?Newbury/Rowley: A white-faced ibis has been seen on several occasions in a flock of 450 glossy ibises in the small pools of water along Route 1A. A Wilson’s phalarope and eight lesser yellowlegs were also seen in the area.

?Plum Island: There was a gathering of 3,100 long-tailed ducks, along with two red-necked grebes, a roseate tern, and 40 common terns.

?Newburyport: In the harbor, 40 willets and 11 lesser yellowlegs were tallied.

?Hingham: Reports from Wompatuck State Park featured a pileated woodpecker, six blue-gray gnatcatchers, Louisiana waterthrushes, northern waterthrushes, six black-and-white warblers, a white-crowned sparrow, and two scarlet tanagers.

?Hanson: At Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area, there was an American bittern, two ring-necked ducks, a red-shouldered hawk, a king rail, a sandhill crane, 20 chimney swifts, an eastern kingbird, six ovenbirds, three northern waterthrushes, 12 American yellow warblers, a prairie warbler, and two field sparrows.

?Miscellaneous: Reports included 44 ruddy ducks at Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston; a glossy ibis at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord; a black vulture in Peabody; 100 chimney swifts in Jamaica Plain; a fox sparrow in Newbury; an indigo bunting in Carlisle; and a yellow-headed blackbird at the feeders at the Lloyd Center for the Environment in Dartmouth.

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.