Recent bird sightings as reported last week to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:
Among the notable reports were a Ross’s goose and a tufted duck on Nantucket; a greater white-fronted goose at the Arlington Reservoir. Also of note were a number of king eider reports and thick-billed murre sightings at various locations, especially at several places in Rockport and Gloucester. Also on Cape Ann, a large falcon thought to be a gyrfalcon has been reported several times, so observers can keep a sharp lookout for this possible rarity.
►Cape Ann: Other interesting reports included many harlequin ducks and several dovekies at scattered locations.
►Plum Island: Most notable at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge were two northern pintails, 10 red-necked grebes, a thick-billed murre, and several snowy owls.
►Miscellaneous: Reports featured three snow geese and five killdeer in Nantucket; a Barrow’s goldeneye in the harbor off the UMass Boston campus; a black vulture in Wrentham; a red-shouldered hawk at Belle Isle in East Boston; a rough-legged hawk in Wayland; a lesser black-backed gull and two glaucous gulls at the Needham transfer station; another lesser black-backed gull at Great Meadows Refuge in Concord; five Iceland gulls on the Merrimack River in Lowell; a snowy owl at Sconticut Neck in Fairhaven; a dickcissel at Mounce’s Meadow in Marshfield; and six rusty blackbirds in Lynnfield.
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.