Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

?Gloucester: Reports included the continued presence of a Barrow’s goldeneye near Plum Cove beach, three redheads and 75 cedar waxwings at Niles Pond, a common murre across from the Elks at Bass Rocks Club, a thick-billed murre at the Jodrey State Fish Pier, and 55 purple sandpipers at Eastern Point Wildlife Sanctuary.

?Rockport: There was a king eider at Halibut Point State Park, two common murres and six razorbills at Andrew’s Point, and a dickcissel near Loblolly Cove.

?Plum Island: At Parker National Wildlife River Refuge, there was a rough-legged hawk, a snowy owl, a short-eared owl, a merlin, a peregrine falcon, a hermit thrush, a gray catbird, and five Lapland longspurs.

?Auburndale: A report included 15 hooded mergansers, a yellow-bellied sapsucker, and 21 rusty blackbirds.

?Cambridge: At the Alewife Brook Reservation, there were two American wigeons, three northern shovelers, a green-winged teal, and two belted kingfishers.

?Miscellaneous: Reports included 12 wood ducks in the Muddy River in Jamaica Plain; 12,400 razorbills, 102 common murres, and 115 Iceland gulls at Race Point beach in Provincetown; 40 snow buntings in Dartmouth; and the continued presence of a mountain bluebird at the Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth.

For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon. org.