►Plum Island: Highlights from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge include the continued sighting of at least seven yellow-crowned night herons, an American avocet, an American golden plover, 13 red knots, a Baird’s sandpiper, five pectoral sandpipers, a black guillemot, a common raven, and a Nelson’s sparrow.
►Newburyport: A ruff and a red-necked phalarope were spotted at the Newburyport Harbor Marina.
► Essex Bay: Sightings included three marbled godwits, nine willets, and two Baird’s sandpipers.
►Nahant: Tallies at the Nahant Beach Reservation listed 850 sanderlings, 550 semipalmated sandpipers, 500 Bonaparte’s gulls, a peregrine falcon, and a cave swallow.
►Westborough: A small pocket of migratory songbirds noted at the Westboro Wildlife Management Area featured a Philadelphia vireo, three Cape May warblers, six yellow warblers, a prairie warbler, and a Wilson’s warbler.
► Waltham: Eleven blue-winged teal, 27 green-winged teal, five ring-necked ducks, and a stilt sandpiper were sighted at Cambridge Reservoir.
►Miscellaneous: Reports included a red-necked grebe at the mouth of the Merrimack River in Salisbury; four Hudsonian godwits in Nantucket; a lesser black-backed gull and a razorbill in Cohasset; and four Caspian terns in Quincy.
For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call MassAudubon at 781-259-8805 or go to www.mass-audubon.org.