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bird sightings

Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

As the spring migration winds down, many birds will be heading north for the Boreal Forest, but breeding birds are settling into their summer in the Commonwealth.

Plum Island: At Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, sightings included 80 long-tailed ducks, all three species of scoters, a yellow-bellied flycatcher, three mourning warblers, six bay-breasted warblers, one late palm warbler, and 13 Wilson’s warblers.

Concord: At Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, there was one least bittern, 12 common nighthawks, and two yellow-throated vireos.

Cambridge: Sightings from Mount Auburn Cemetery included a yellow-bellied flycatcher, a worm-eating warbler, about a dozen bay-breasted warblers, eight blackburnian warblers, and several other warblers and migrants.

Miscellaneous: Sightings last week include a clapper rail at the Egypt Lane Ponds in Fairhaven, two chuck-will’s-widows at Sesachacha Pond in Nantucket, a red-headed woodpecker in the Manomet area of Plymouth, an olive-sided flycatcher at the McLaughlin Woods in Boston, and a white-eyed vireo at Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary.

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.