Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

?Cambridge: Reports from Alewife Brook Reservation included five northern shovelers, one green-winged teal, three great blue herons, one sharp-shinned hawk, and a belted kingfisher.

?Quincy: At Wollaston Beach, there were 18 brants, 400 common eiders, 55 surf scoters, 100 white-winged scoters, 50 buffleheads, 25 common goldeneyes, and 10 sanderlings.

?Sandwich: There were 10 wood ducks, one American woodcock, four winter wrens, one hermit thrush, one brown thrasher, two yellow-rumped warblers, and two rusty blackbirds at the Sandwich Fish Hatchery.

?Miscellaneous: Reports included the continuing presence of a mountain bluebird at Crane Wildlife Management Area in East Falmouth; a painted bunting in Nantucket; a clay-colored sparrow in Haverhill; a red-headed woodpecker at Millennium Park in West Roxbury; a greater white-fronted goose in Ipswich; a king eider in Weymouth; two redheads and a thick-billed murre in Gloucester; a black-headed gull in Harwich Port; dickcissels in Rockport and Chatham; Baltimore orioles in Arlington, Lincoln, and Falmouth; and fox sparrows in Worcester, Lincoln, Norfolk, Franklin, and Concord.

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