Recent bird sightings in Western Mass. (as of Jan. 6) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

A yellow-headed blackbird was seen and photographed with a flock of grackles at a feeder in Chicopee.

Reports continue of the red-headed woodpeckers in the Longmeadow Flats and a short-eared owl in Northampton.

A cackling goose and Northern shrike were seen in Sheffield and a red-throated loon was on Stockbridge Bowl.

A Northern shrike was found at the northern end of the Quabbin Reservoir and two long-tailed ducks and a Northern saw-whet owl were reported at the southern end of the reservoir.

A Barrow’s goldeneye, two Iceland gulls, and two lesser black-backed gulls were seen at Turners Falls. Migrant and lingering waterfowl seen included wood duck, green-winged teal, American wigeon, ring-necked duck, greater scaup, lesser scaup, bufflehead, common goldeneye, hooded merganser, and common merganser.

Also reported were ruffed grouse, common loon, Northern harrier, red-shouldered hawk, American coot, spotted sandpiper, belted kingfisher, yellow-bellied sapsucker, Northern flicker, fish crow, American pipit, snow bunting, horned lark, winter wren, hermit thrush, cedar waxwing, fox sparrow, savannah sparrow, grackle, rusty blackbird, cowbird, purple finch, and pine siskin.

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.