Bird sightings

Recent bird sightings reported to Mass Audubon:

Outstanding reports last week were three swallow-tailed kites in Rehoboth, single western cattle egrets in Harwich and Fairhaven, a Ross’s goose in Westport, a Townsend’s warbler and a yellow-throated warbler at Martha’s Vineyard, and a painted bunting in Whately.

Cape Cod: A prothonotary warbler at the Pogoreic Sanctuary in West Barnstable, a worm-eating warbler at Highhead Beach in Truro, a western cattle egret at Bell’s Neck in Harwich, a yellow-crowned night-heron at South Cape Beach in Mashpee, three pacific loons at Race Point in Provincetown, single ruby-throated hummingbirds in Harwich, Brewster, Wellfleet, and Barnstable, a yellow-breasted chat, a prairie warbler, a hooded warbler, and a Lincoln’s sparrow at Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary, a spotted sandpiper and an eastern kingbird in the Provincetown Beech Forest, a yellow-throated vireo and a wood thrush at the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge in Mashpee, an ovenbird and a Baltimore oriole at the Santuit Preserve in Mashpee, and a lingering thick-billed murre at Quissett Harbor in Falmouth.

Bristol County: Three swallow-tailed kites near the Veterans Memorial in Rehoboth, a western cattle egret on Shaw Road in Fairhaven, a Louisiana waterthrush on Cornell Road in Westport, four harlequin ducks at Gooseberry Neck in Westport, a Ross’s goose on Westport Road in Westport, a green heron at Rulon Farm in Westport, a white-eyed vireo on Blossom Road in Fall River, 10 common terns at West Island in Fairhaven, and a redeyed vireo on Menden Road in Attleboro.

Plymouth County: One-hundred common terns in Marion, a king rail and five sandhill cranes at Burrage Pond WMA in Hanson, single blue grosbeaks at World’s End in Hingham and Shallow Pond in Manomet, a hooded warbler at Manomet Bird Observatory, a white-eyed vireo on Dexter Road in Wareham, and a scarlet tanager in Rochester.

Norfolk County: Three bluewinged teal in the Squantum Marshes in Squantum, a Louisiana waterthrush at Noanet Woodlands in Dover, two American bitterns and a pied-billed grebe at Ponkapoag Pond in Canton, another American bittern at the Hale Reservation power corridor in Dover, and single ruby-throated hummingbirds in Norfolk and Milton.

Suffolk County: A whiteeyed vireo at the Winthrop Greenway, three semipalmated plovers and a white-eyed vireo at the Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, and an American bittern, an American coot and a Louisiana waterthrush at Chandler Pond in Boston.

Middlesex County: A yellowcrowned night-heron at the Amelia Earhart Dam in Everett, three glossy ibises at Nine Acre Corner in Concord, single redthroated loons at the Horn Pond Recreation Area in Woburn and the Cambridge Reservoir in Waltham, an American goshawk at Wolbach Farm in Sudbury, a wood thrush at the Minute Man State Park in Lincoln, an orchard oriole in Littleton, single Baltimore orioles in Watertown and Arlington, a fox sparrow in Stow, and an ovenbird in Concord.

Essex County: Two yellowcrowned night-herons, a hooded warbler, and a blue-winged warbler at Marblehead Neck Sanctuary in Marblehead, seven harlequin ducks at Gully Point Cove in Rockport and three black guillemots at Loblolly Point in Rockport, a great crested flycatcher at Daviel Boone Park in Ipswich, and two American coots at Plum Island.

Berkshire County: A longtailed duck on Pontoosuc Lake in Pittsfield, a wood thrush, and an indigo bunting elsewhere in Pittsfield, a warbling vireo at Ashley Falls, and a late American tree sparrow in Dalton.

Franklin County: A painted bunting on Chestnut Plain Road in Whately, in addition to an American goshawk at Quabbin Reservoir’s gate 35 in New Salem, two sandhill cranes off Pleasant Street in Ashfield and two more cranes on Old South Road in Orange, a blackcrowned night-heron at North Meadows in Deerfield, to redeyed vireos in Colrain, and a veery in Montague.

Hampshire County: A glossy ibis at the Tri County Fairgrounds in Northampton, and a lapland longspur in the East Meadows in Northampton, an American bittern, a hooded warbler, and a veery on Moody Bridge Road in Hadley, a sandhill crane on Old Bay Road in Belchertown, and a Lincoln’s sparrow on Orchard Hill at UMass in Amherst.

Hampden County: Three upland sandpipers along the Perimeter Road of Westover Air Base in Ludlow, seven chimney swifts at the Longmeadow Flats in Longmeadow, and a veery near the Bearhole Reservoir in West Springfield.

Worcester County: Four black vultures near Lake Louisa in Milford, two glossy ibises, a solitary sandpiper, a continuing black-headed gull, and 15 red crossbills at the Bolton Flats WMA in Bolton, a yellowthroated vireo in Northbridge, a great crested flycatcher at the Westboro WMA in Westboro, and four evening grosbeaks in Royalston.

Martha’s Vineyard: Tw o Chuck-will’s-widows at the Mytoi Japanese Garden on Chappaquiddick Island, as well as a Townsend’s warbler at Cape Pogue Wildlife Refuge, and a eurasian green-winged teal, and a yellow-throated warble at the Cove Meadow Preserve, all on Chappaquiddick. A blue grosbeak was spotted on Head of the Pond Road in Vineyard Haven, three black skimmers at Sengekontacket Pond, a whiteeyed vireo at Felix Neck Sanctuary, and a hooded warbler at Toms Neck in Edgartown.

Nantucket: Seven harlequin ducks at Siasconset, a blue grosbeak at Madaket, a shortbilled dowitcher at Jetties Beach, and two northern shovelers at Great Pond.