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BIRDS

Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Sharon: A scissor-tailed flycatcher was discovered last Sunday at Moose Hill Sanctuary and stayed through Monday. No sightings have been reported since.

Provincetown: At Race Point, birdwatchers reported 12 red-throated loons, a Pacific loon, five manx shearwaters, 15 parasitic jaegers, an Atlantic puffin, 150 black-legged kittiwakes, 40 Bonaparte’s gulls, a black-headed gull, 300 laughing gulls, a Franklin’s gull, two Iceland gulls, three lesser black-backed gulls, two Caspian terns, and 10 Arctic terns.

Fairhaven: Birds reported in Fairhaven included a family of pied-billed grebes, two black vultures, a least bittern, and two clapper rails.

Norfolk: At the Norfolk Airport, birds reported included an eastern wood pewee, a prairie warbler, two grasshopper sparrows, six savannah sparrows, and 30 bobolinks.

Rockport: Birds sighted at Andrews Point included a northern fulmar, eight sooty shearwaters, two Manx shearwaters, a Wilson’s storm-petrel, two Leach’s storm-petrels, 373 northern gannets, a pomarine jaeger, and an Atlantic puffin.

Falmouth: At Crane Wildlife Management Area, birds included an American kestrel, four prairie warblers, five grasshopper sparrows, five field sparrows, a blue grosbeak, and two eastern meadowlarks.

Miscellaneous: A cattle egret on Nantucket; a white-eyed vireo and a hooded warbler in Falmouth; a red-headed woodpecker in Lexington; a blue grosbeak at the Cumberland Farms Fields in Halifax; and a yellow-crowned night heron in Ipswich.

For more information or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.mass-audubon.org.