Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
►Bridgewater: The Northern lapwing that had been frequenting a field on Summer Street near Bridgewater Correctional Complex was still present Friday.
►Nantucket: Two Northern lapwings continued to be seen at Hummock Pond. Other recent reports included two Eurasian wigeons, an unidentified Selasphorus hummingbird, a Western kingbird, and a Northern shrike.
►Chatham: A little egret that had been frequenting Cape Cod during the past several weeks was sighted on Wednesday at Bucks Creek, where an American oystercatcher was also observed.
►Rockport: A seawatch at Andrew’s Point on Thursday produced 228 Harlequin ducks, 11 Northern fulmars, 240 Northern gannets, 465 black-legged kittiwakes, seven pomarine jaegers, 43 dovekies, 66 common murres, two thick-billed murres, 680 razorbills, 12 black guillemots, and three Atlantic puffins. At Pebble Beach, two American pipits were observed.
►Newburyport: At the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island, a great egret, two rough-legged hawks, a peregrine falcon, and 20 white-winged crossbills. At Salisbury Beach Reservation, 89 white-winged crossbills.
►Wilmington: There were reports of two Iceland gulls and a glaucous gull on Silver Lake. In the vicinity of the Wilmington Industrial Park, 18 pine grosbeaks, 35 common redpolls, and a hoary redpoll .
►Miscellaneous reports: Two snow geese in Essex; a greater white-fronted goose on the athletic fields of the Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School; a Eurasian green-winged teal at the Newton City Hall pond; 325 ring-necked ducks and 105 ruddy ducks at Kenoza Lake in Haverhill; five redheads and 100 hooded mergansers at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir; a late osprey in Acton; a snowy owl at Cuttyhunk; a Nashville warbler and a yellow-breasted chat in the Fenway Victory Gardens; and a mixed flock of red- and white-winged crossbills in the pines near the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Dorchester.
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