Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Common mergansers are especially noticeable right now, particularly on larger lakes and ponds. American woodcocks are also being reported at dusk at a number of locations on wind-free evenings.

►Plum Island: The most notable reports from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge included a rough-legged hawk, a barred owl, a northern shrike, two common ravens, and 15 red crossbills. Five red crossbills were also reported from Salisbury Beach State Reservation.

►Ipswich: A red-headed woodpecker and a barred owl were reported at Appleton Farm.

►Saugus: Remarkably another, or more likely the same, Smith’s longspur that was reported at the Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary last winter was spotted and photographed again last week.

►Wilmington: On Silver Lake, a tufted duck, and Iceland gull, and a glaucous gull were recorded.

►New Salem: 35 ring-necked ducks, 80 hooded mergansers, 140 common mergansers, and two bald eagles were reported at gate 35 at the Quabbin Reservoir.

►Miscellaneous: Reports included a Ross’s goose at the Sudbury Reservoir in Framingham; a redhead at the Cambridge Reservoir; a great egret in Duxbury; 84 lesser black-backed gulls in Nantucket; a Lincoln’s sparrow in Essex; a white-crowned sparrow in Plymouth; and six eastern meadowlarks at Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield.

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