Bird sightings

Recent bird sightings as reported to Mass Audubon:

Several notable highlights this week featured a ruff and a prothonotary warbler in Marshfield, a continuing Western grebe in Winthrop, a continuing Say’s phoebe in Belchertown, a yellow-throated warbler in Wellfleet, a black-throated gray warbler in Clinton, several goodsized flocks of bohemian waxwings in Methuen, Lowell, and Turner’s Falls, a scattering of sandhill cranes in several areas. Also some early migrants showed up this week including blue-headed vireo, white-eyed vireo black-and-white warbler common yellowthroat, Louisiana waterthrush, ovenbird, rose-breasted grosbeak, and scarlet tanager.

ºBerkshire County: Three northern shovelers and a Great Egret at Corbin’s Neck in Ashley Falls, three additional northern shovelers at Silver Lake in Pittsfield, a eurasian green-winged teal at the Post Farm in Lenox, a Louisiana waterthrush near the Jug End Street Reservoir in Egremont.

ºBristol County: A summer tanager at the Caratunk Wildlife Refuge in Seekonk, five clapper rails at the Egypt Lane Ponds in Fairhaven, three lesser yellowlegs on Shaw Road in Fairhaven, a white-eyed vireo at the Southeastern MA Bioreserve on Brightman Path in Fall River, house wren in the Freetown

State Forest in Fall River, and a semipalmated plover at West Island in Fairhaven.

ºCape Cod: A continuing western kingbirdon Meeting House Road in Eastham, a yellowthroated warbler at a feeder near Gull Pond in Wellfleet, an indigo bunting near the Wellfleet fire tower and another one at Fort Hill in Eastham, a rosebreasted grosbeak in Truro, a clapper rail at the Herring River in Wellfleet, a black vulture feeding on a deer carcass on Old County Road in Wellfleet, a manx shearwater at Race Point in Provincetown, a “Black” Brant (the West Coast race of the Brant) at the Sandwich Marina, a thick-billed murre at Quissett Harbor in Falmouth, two black-headed gulls at Dowses Beach in Osterville, and an ovenbird singing at the Bells Neck Conservation Area in Harwich.

ºEssex County: A sora at Loblolly Cove in Rockport, a western cattle egret and a late snow bunting at the Pikul’s Farm on Rout 1A in Rowley, a flock of as many as 30 bohemian waxwings at the Ranger Plaza in Methuen, a eurasian wigeon in a wet field on Scotland Road in Newbury, a eurasian green-winged teal on Plum Island, and single bluegray gnatcatchers on the rail bed at Lynnfield Marsh in Lynnfield, and Crystal Lake in Haverhill.

ºFranklin County: Two bohemian waxwings on 11th Street in

Turner’s Falls, three sandhill cranes at the Pilgrim Airport in Whately, 17 red crossbills at the Montague Sand Plains WMA in Montague, four white-crowned sparrowsand a flyover solitary sandpiper on Hadley Road in Sunderland.

ºHampshire County: A Say’s phoebe in the vicinity of the Quabbin Reservoir Visitor’s Center in Belchertown, three sandhill cranes and a pectoral sandpiper on Main Street in Hatfield, two American bitterns on Moddy Bridge Road in Hadley, and a blue-headed vireo near the Hadley Reservoir State Park in Hadley.

ºMiddlesex County: A glossy ibis in Malden, a yellowcrowned night-heronand a redthroated loon at the Horn Pond Recreation Area in Woburn, a red-breasted merganserat Eel Pond in Melrose, two rednecked grebesCQ at the Cambridge Reservoir in Waltham, and a flock of as many as 36 bohemian waxwings at the Lowell National Historic Park Visitor’s Center in Lowell.

ºNantucket: Two short-eared owls at Tom Nevers Beach, two canvasbacks, an American bittern, and continuing dickcissel in the Madaket area, a bald eagleat the Sandford Farm, and a willet at The Creeks Preserve near downtown Nantucket.

ºPlymouth County: A prothonotary warbler and a ruff at the Daniel Webster Sanctuary in Marshfield, 40 American pipits in a field on Vaughn Hill Road in Rochester, two sandhill cranes at Burrage Pond WMA in Hanson and another single cranein a field on Beech Street in Rockland, a manx shearwater at Brant Rock in Marshfield, 50 red knotsat Plymouth Beach, eight lapland longspurs on Duxbury Beach, a tally of 11 northern rough-winged swallows in Plympton.

ºSuffolk County: A continuing western grebe and a late snow bunting at Winthrop Beach, a Barrow’s goldeneyeand a pileated woodpecker at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, eight manx shearwaters off Revere Beach, a lesser black-backed gull at Castle Island in Boston Harbor, an American bittern and 2 Gadwalls at the Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, a group of 10 soaring black vultures over Jamaica Plain, and a black-andwhite warbler in the Boston Public Garden.

ºWorcester County: A blackthroated gray warbler on Clamshell Road near the Rauscher Farm in Clinton, three sandhill cranes at the Bolton Flats WMA in Bolton, a blue-gray gnatcatcher at the MacCallum WMA in Westborough, three sandhill cranes at the Winimusset WMA in New Braintree, and a blueheaded vireo at Newton Hill in Worcester.

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