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Bird sightings

Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Plum Island: Sightings at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge included American wigeons, northern pintails, green-winged teals, 45 greater yellowlegs, two razorbills, two common ravens, 25 horned larks, 20 snow buntings, and a clay-colored sparrow.

Nantucket: Reports featured a Hudsonian godwit, a least sandpiper, a solitary sandpiper, a ruby-throated hummingbird, four red-eyed vireos, Tennessee warblers, American redstart warblers, Cape May warblers, two black-throated blue warblers, and two black-throated green warblers.

Fenway: Noted at the Fenway Victory Gardens were a Swainson’s thrush, a Nashville warbler, and a Lincoln’s sparrow.

Malden: Spotted near Pinnacle Rock at the Middlesex Fells Reservation were a bald eagle, sharp-shinned hawks, and Cooper’s hawks.

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West Roxbury: A report from Millennium Park included 14 Savannah sparrows, 21 rusty blackbirds, and a Baltimore oriole.

Westborough: Highlights from the Wildlife Management Area included two Bonaparte’s gulls, a Philadelphia vireo, a clay-colored sparrow, and a vesper sparrow.

Pembroke: Spotted at Great Sandy Bottom Pond were 45 green-winged teals, several ring-necked ducks, several lesser scaup, five buffleheads, a common merganser, 350 ruddy ducks, and five greater yellowlegs.

Miscellaneous: Reports included a snow goose in Sharon; a tufted duck at Johnson’s Pond in Groveland; a cattle egret, 143 ring-necked ducks and 18 ruddy ducks near Fresh Pond at Danehy Park in Cambridge; an osprey in Taunton; a long-billed dowitcher at the Cambridge Reservoir in Waltham; a little gull at Lynn Beach; a short-eared owl at the Cumberland Farms fields in Middleborough; 50 northern saw-whet owls in both Lincoln and Northbridge; two eastern phoebes in Easton; a clay-colored sparrow in Arlington; and evening grosbeaks in Melrose and Essex.


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.