Bird sightings

Recent bird sightings reported to Mass Audubon:

Lingering notable species this week were a Western grebe in Winthrop, a tufted duck on Nantucket, a Say’s phoebe in Belchertown, a Townsend’s solitaire in Truro, a bohemian waxwing in Yarmouth, and either two or three trumpeter swans in the Westboro-Uxbridge area of Worcester County. The numbers of blackbird flocks are also becoming more obvious, and reports of tree swallows and Eastern phoebes are also now widespread

► Cape Cod: A continuing bohemian waxwing on Water Street in Yarmouth and a Townsend’s solitaire at High Head in Truro, a whimbrel, a lesser yellowlegs, and a willet at West Dennis Beach, another willet at Red River Beach in Harwich, nine great egrets and seven snowy egrets at Bell’s Neck in Harwich, four black-headed gulls at Long Beach in Barnstable, a pacific loon, two thick-billed murres, and two dovekies at Race Point in Provincetown, a black vulture at MacMillan Wharf in Provincetown, and four barn swallows in Barnstable.

► Bristol County: A blue-winged teal at Gooseberry Neck in Westport, two clapper rails and two brown thrashers at the Egypt Lane Ponds in Fairhaven, osprey at Winnecunnet Pond in Norton, 12 barn swallows at Clover Valley Farm in Easton, and a yellowbreasted chat at Ocean View Farm I Dartmouth.

► Plymouth County: One-hundred-and-seven red knots at Plymouth Beach, three sandhill cranes at Burrage Pond WMA in Hanson, three blue-winged teal at West Meadows WMA in West Bridgewater, two black-headed gulls at Nelson Beach in Plymouth, a eurasian green-winged teal at Ellisville Harbor, two black vultures at the Bridgewater State Farm in Bridgewater, and three palm warblers at the Foothills Preserve in Manomet.

► Norfolk County: A flock of 25 snow geese in flight over the Wrentham Village Shopping Area in Wrentham, three Virginia rails at Squantum Point Park in Squantum, an American kestrel at Great Hill Park in Weymouth, two ospreys at the Squantum Marshes, and an Eastern Towhee at Stony Brook Sanctuary in Norfolk.

► Suffolk County: A Western Grebe a Winthrop Beach, as well as two gadwalls at Franklin Park, three Virginia rails at Millennnium Park in West Roxbury, two red-shouldered hawks Hancock Woods in Chestnut Hill, and a lesser yellowlegs at the Belle Isle Reservation.

► Middlesex County: Two continuing Barrow’s goldeneyes at the Delaney WMA in Stow, three red-throated loons at the Mystics Lakes Dam in Medford, 3 Northern Shovelers and a Blackcrowned Night-Heron at the Horn Pond Recreation Area in Woburn, three black vultures at the Lowell River Walk in Lowell, an osprey at Norumbega Park in Auburndale, and three marsh wrens at Great Meadows Refuge in Concord.

► Essex County: Eighteen American pipits in the Argilla Farm fields in Ipswich, a pectoral sandpiper the Topsfield Fair Grounds in Topsfield, an American bittern and a snow bunting at Plum Island, a great egret at the Goldthwait Reservoir in Marblehead and seven more great egrets at Plum Island, and a continuing, yellow-breasted chat at a feeder at 50 Leonard Ave. in Bradford.

► Berkshire County: A continuing dickcissel at a feeder on Jug End Road in South Egremont, an early broad-winged hawk at Berkshire Pond in Lanesboro, four northern shovelers at Lake Onota in Pittsfield and two more shovelers in Sheffield, a horned grebe on Lake Pontoosuc in Pittsfield, an eastern towhee on the campus of Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, a blue-winged teal at Corbin’s Neck in Ashley Falls, three eastern meadowlarks at Ayr Hills Farm in Adams, and three sandhill cranes in New Marlborough.

► Franklin County: Seventy-five red crossbills at the Montague Sandplains WMA in Montague.

► Hampshire County: A Say’s phoebe in the vicinity of the Quabbin Reservoir Visitor’s Center in Belchertown, along with two sandhill cranes on Old Post Road in Worthington, and a eurasian green-winged teal and a blue-winged teal at Great Pond in Hatfield.

► Hampden County: Two northern shovelers and five yellowrumped warblers at the Stebbins Refuge in Longmeadow and two ospreys at the Longmeadow Flats in Longmeadow.

► Worcester County: Two trumpeter swans near Cormier Woods in Uxbridge, and another sighting of a trumpeter swan near the Arch Street Bridge in Westboro. Other sightings of note were a pectoral sandpiper, Three blue-winged teal, and two northern shovelers at the Bolton Flats WMA in Bolton, two sandhill cranes at the WMA in New Braintree, and two black vultures at the Cass Meadow WMA in Athol.

► Martha’s Vineyard: A lapland longspur at Menemsha Harbor, a common raven at Gay Head, and a bald eagle at the Felix Neck Sanctuary in Edgartown.

► Nantucket: A continuing tufted duck near the Massasoit Bridge, along with a group of eight northern shovelers, and in the Madaket area there was a eurasian green-winged teal, a common raven, and two fish crows.

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