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bird sightings

Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Common nighthawks are still on the move, and hawk watchers eager to see the first major movement of broad-winged hawks should keep their eyes open during the next 10 days. Wachusett Mountain in Princeton is an especially good vantage point to view this annual phenomenon.

Plum Island: Reports from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge last week include 35 green-winged teal, 17 glossy ibises, a variety of shorebirds including American golden-plover, whimbrel, red knot, western sandpiper, white-rumped sandpiper, Baird’s sandpiper, buff-breasted sandpiper, stilt sandpiper, and long-billed dowitcher.

Newburyport: At the airport, a red-shouldered hawk and buff-breasted sandpiper were seen.

Winthrop: Noted were an American bittern, 14 American golden-plovers, three marbled godwits, a red-necked phalarope, a Wilson’s phalarope, and two Caspian terns.

East Boston: A report from Belle Isle featured four blue-winged teal, a hooded merganser, two stilt sandpipers, and a Wilson’s phalarope.

Miscellaneous: Reports included 113 Cory’s shearwaters at Gooseberry Island in Westport; a brown pelican seen briefly at Gully Point in Rockport; an American white pelican at Black Point Pond on Martha’s Vineyard; two lesser black-backed gulls, a laughing gull, a yellow-throated vireo, a Connecticut warbler, and a mourning warbler at the Westborough Wildlife Management Area; two Caspian terns in Melrose; a Brewster’s warbler at Nahanton Park in Needham; and a dickcissel at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

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.