Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:
?Gloucester: Reports included two redheads, a black-headed gull, five Iceland gulls, and a glaucous gull at Brace Cove, 30 purple sandpipers at Eastern Point Wildlife Sanctuary. and a Barrow’s goldeneye at Rowley Shore.
?Plum Island: At Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, there were 45 green-winged teals, two bald eagles, five northern harriers, a rough-legged hawk, two short-eared owls, a merlin, a peregrine falcon, four hermit thrushes, a gray catbird, eight Lapland longspurs, and 50 snow buntings.
?Haverhill: Seventeen species of waterfowl were recently tallied at Kenoza Lake including a Eurasian wigeon, three redheads, a tufted duck, 140 ring-necked ducks, 18 ruddy ducks, and 26 American coots. A clay-colored sparrow also continued to visit a feeder at 53 Leonard Ave.
?Worcester: At Lake Quinsigamond, there were five canvasbacks, a northern shoveler, a northern pintail, a redhead, a greater scaup, a lesser scaup, and 13 ruddy ducks. At Flint Pond, there was an eastern phoebe.
?Miscellaneous: Reports included a greater white-fronted goose with a flock of Canada geese at Bolton Flats Wildlife Management Area in Lancaster; two Barrow’s goldeneyes and three American pipits on Boston Harbor; a red-shouldered hawk in Milton; the continued presence of a sandhill crane in the corn fields on Walnut Street in East Bridgewater; a ruby-crowned kinglet and an orange-crowned warbler at Danehy Park in Cambridge; and a Lincoln’s sparrow at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Sudbury.
For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org.