Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

?Topsfield: A report from Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary featured 18 wood ducks, a blue-winged teal, 14 ring-necked ducks, two pileated woodpeckers, and 17 palm warblers.

?Nahant: A winter wren, palm warblers, eastern towhees, and hermit thrushes were noted in the town.

?Winthrop: A western grebe continued to be seen near Five Sisters breakwaters. Also seen were two blue-winged teals, eight piping plovers, and six American oystercatchers nearby.

?Concord: At Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, there were four northern pintails, three pied-billed grebes, three Virginia rails, a sora, two American coots, a barn swallow, eight marsh wrens, and nine palm warblers.

?Central Massachusetts: A survey of the Ware River watershed tallied 18 hooded mergansers, a bald eagle, a broad-winged hawk, three ruffed grouse, 26 eastern phoebes, a blue-headed vireo, 13 red-breasted nuthatches, 44 pine warblers, 21 palm warblers, and 64 purple finches.

?Quincy: At Wollaston Beach, reports came in of 270 brant, five great egrets, six snowy egrets, two American oystercatchers, seven greater yellowlegs, a brown thrasher, and 20 Savannah sparrows.

?Miscellaneous: Reports included 11 Manx shearwaters at Revere Beach; an upland sandpiper, a snowy owl, and two short-eared owls at Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary in Saugus; a red-headed woodpecker at Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary in Worcester; a white-eyed vireo in Hopkinton; a Louisiana waterthrush at Wompatuck State Park in Hingham; two short-eared owls at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Plum Island; and a lesser black-backed gull at Salisbury Beach State Reservation.

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.