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bird sightings
By xxxxxx
Globe Staff

Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Mild weather before the snowstorm last week produced reports of the first calling of American woodcocks, with three in Dighton and another in Marshfield.

►Wenham: At Wenham Lake, a pink-footed goose was observed with a flock of Canada geese.

►Ipswich: A pink-footed goose continues to be observed in the fields off of Argilla Road.

►Woburn: At Horn Pond there were reports of two northern pintails, a red-throated loon, an ovenbird, and a fox sparrow.

►Rockport: At Cathedral Ledge there were reports of a Pacific loon, 226 black-legged kittiwakes, two lesser black-backed gulls, two dovekies, four common murres, a thick-billed murre, and 118 razorbills.

►Boston Harbor: Noted at Deer Island were two Barrow’s goldeneyes and seven Iceland gulls.

►Hull: At Point Allerton there were reports of a Pacific loon and two Barrow’s goldeneyes.

Middleborough: Sightings from the Cumberland Farms fields produced two rough-legged hawks, a Wilson’s snipe, an American kestrel, 50 horned larks, and eight eastern bluebirds.

►Miscellaneous: Reports included two gadwalls in Clinton; a northern shoveler at Hager Pond in Marlborough; a redhead at Hardy Pond in Waltham; 17 black vultures in Blackstone; two semipalmated plovers at Ellisville Harbor in Plymouth; two white-winged doves in the Fenway Victory Garden; a short-eared owl in Revere; five American pipits and 23 Lapland longspurs at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm in Newbury; a yellow-breasted chat in Nahant; a western tanager in Haverhill; and 21 red crossbills at Salisbury.

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