Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

►Plum Island: Reports from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge included great and snowy egrets, an American bittern, two ospreys, 22 piping plovers, 50 purple sandpipers, a winter wren, and three fox sparrows.

►Gloucester: A king eider was observed in Gloucester Harbor along with the continued presence of a thick-billed murre.

►Middleton: Reports included two snow geese, 15 Wilson’s snipes, and two eastern meadowlarks, and at the Topsfield Fair Grounds a greater white-fronted goose was observed.

►Westminster: There were reports of an Iceland gull, three lesser black-backed gulls, and a glaucous gull.

►Saugus: At the Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, there was a rough-legged hawk, four short-eared owls, 85 horned larks, and the continued presence of a Smith’s longspur.

►Quincy: There were 50 northern gannets, two American oystercatchers, 29 ruddy turnstones, and four fox sparrows at Squantum Point Park and the Wollaston Beach.

►Miscellaneous: Reports last week featured a Eurasian wigeon at Hager Pond in Marlborough; one or two common teal and a glossy ibis in Concord; the continued presence of a king eider near the entrance to the Herring Run at the Cape Cod Canal in Bourne; a Barrow’s goldeneye at Braintree Great Pond; four Manx shearwaters at Revere Beach; a tricolored heron in Hingham Harbor; a yellow-crowned night-heron in Ellisville Harbor; two black vultures in Medford; two sandhill cranes at Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area in Hanson; a lesser yellowlegs in Newbury; seven Iceland gulls at Deer Island in Boston; the continued presence of a red-headed woodpecker at Appleton Farm in Ipswich and two white-winged doves in the Boston Fenway Victory Garden; short-eared owls at Hanscom Field in Bedford and Duxbury Beach; a northern shrike in Wayland; a purple martin in Raynham; an indigo bunting in Westport; and 50 rusty blackbirds at Reedy Meadow 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.