►Plum Island: Highlights from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge include three northern shovelers, 15 common mergansers, 78 great egrets, 120 snowy egrets, two yellow-crowned night herons, an American avocet, an American golden plover, three piping plovers, a Baird’s sandpiper, four buff-breasted sandpipers, three stilt sandpipers, a Wilson’s phalarope, four Forster’s terns, and five merlins.
►►Essex Bay: There were sightings of an American golden plover, two marbled godwits, 13 red knots, and a Baird’s sandpiper.►
►Westborough: A variety of warblers were spotted at the Westborough Wildlife Management Area, including five Connecticut warblers, a mourning warbler, and two Cape May warblers, in addition to a white-eyed vireo.
►Boston: In the Fenway Victory Gardens were a red-shouldered hawk, a northern waterthrush, one or two Connecticut warblers, two Wilson’s warblers, a yellow-breasted chat, and a clay-colored sparrow.
►Princeton: Notable migratory hawk tallies came in: 16 bald eagles, 12 Cooper’s hawks, and 1600 broad-winged hawks at Wachusett Mountain.
►Ashburnham: There were 1,700 migratory broad-winged hawks at Mount Watatic.
►Miscellaneous: Reports included a yellow-crowned night heron in Dartmouth; a yellow-crowned night heron and a Connecticut warbler at Nantucket; 10 pectoral sandpipers in Randolph; a buff-breasted sandpiper at Winthrop Beach; a stilt sandpiper at Squantum; a black-headed gull at Kings Beach in Swampscott; a northern wheatear at Springhill Beach in Sandwich; a Connecticut warbler, three dickcissels, and a lark sparrow at Cumberland Farms in Halifax; and lark sparrows in Lincoln, Concord, Middleton, and Nahant.
For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call MassAudubon at 781-259-8805 or go to www.mass-audubon.org.