Bird sightings

Recent bird sightings reported to Mass Audubon:

▶Berkshire County: Two longtailed ducks at Silver Lake in Pittsfield, two Northern shovelers at Laurel Lake in Lee and one at Corbin’s Neck in Ashley Falls, a broad-winged hawk at Berkshire Pond in Lanesborough, and a continuing dickcissel at a feeder on Jug End Road in South Egremont.

▶Bristol County: Highlights were a lesser yellowlegs on Shaw Road in Fairhaven, two clapper rails at the Egypt Lane Ponds in Fairhaven, and a yellow-breasted chat at the Ocean View Farm Reserve in Dartmouth.

▶Cape Cod: Luminaries were a yellow-crowned night heron at Frost Fish Creek in Chatham, a continuing Townsend’s solitaire at High Head in Truro, and a continuing Bohemian waxwing in Yarmouth Port. A Manx shearwater, two Pacific loons, and a Lapland longspur at Race Point in Provincetown. A whimbrel and a glaucous gull at Davis Road Beach in West Dennis, three black-headed gulls at Doses Beach in Osterville, a king eider and a black vulture at the Sagamore Recreation Area in Bourne, and a northern shrike at the Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth.

▶Essex County: A continuing eared grebe at the Little Private Beach in Marblehead, three Ross’s geese in flight over Newbury, nine American pipits on Scotland Road in Newbury, two white-crowned sparrows at the Salisbury Beach Reservation in Salisbury, and a sora at Lynnfield Marsh in Lynnfield. A black vulture over Crystal Lake in Haverhill, a continuing yellowbreasted chat at a feeder at 53 Leonard Ave. in Bradford, a late snow bunting at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester, and 60 tree swallows at Ipswich River Sanctuary in Topsfield.

▶Franklin County: Notables included two sandhill cranes at the Pilgrim Airport in Whately, 60 red crossbills at the Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area in Montague, and two whitecrowned sparrows on Hadley Road in Sunderland.

▶Hampden County: Two Northern shovelers at the Stebbins Refuge in Longmeadow and two ospreys at the Longmeadow Flats.

▶Hampshire County: A Eurasian green-winged teal at Great Pond in Hatfield, two sandhill cranes on Main Street in Hatfield that were also seen at the Pilgrim Airport in Franklin County, a continuing Say’s phoebe at the Quabbin Reservoir Visitors’ Center in Belchertown, and a white-winged scoter at the Windsor Dam in Belchertown.

▶Martha’s Vineyard: Single willets at Aquinnah and West Basin Road in Chilmark, a common raven at Gay Head, and a Lapland longspur at Menemsha Beach.

▶Middlesex County: Single redthroated loons at the Mystic Lakes in Medford and Horn Pond in Woburn, three redthroated loons at the Cistern in Medford, and a black-crowned night heron at Eel Pond in Melrose. Four marsh wrens at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, an orangecrowned warbler at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, and an osprey at Rock Meadow Pond in Ayer.

▶Nantucket: Highlights included four northern shovelers on Long Pond, a short-eared owl at Tom Nevers Beach, seven snow geese in Madaket, and a continuing dickcissel at a feeder in Madaket.

▶Norfolk County: Three piping plovers at Wollaston Beach, 152 snow geese migrating over the Blue Hills in Quincy, 25 snow geese in flight over Wrentham, and a single snow goose on the Cohasset Golf Course. ▶Plymouth County: Highlights included 98 red knots at Plymouth Beach, three sandhill cranes and two barn swallows at Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area in Hanson, and two laughing gulls at Nelson’s Field in Plymouth.

▶Suffolk County: A continuing Western grebe at Winthrop Beach, a Barrow’s goldeneye at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, and two Manx shearwaters at Revere Beach. Two gadwalls at Franklin Park, and a yellowbellied sapsucker and an orangecrowned warbler at the Boston Nature Center in Mattapan.

▶Worcester County: Luminaries included four sandhill cranes at the Winimusset Meadows Wildlife Management Area in New Braintree, seven red crossbills at Gate 43 at Quabbin Reservoir in Hardwick, two black vultures at Adams Farm in Athol, and two more black vultures at the Brigham Hill Wildlife Management Area in North Grafton.

For more information about bird sightings go to www.massaudubon.org.