Bird Sightings
Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
A lark sparrow was seen briefly Friday at North Pool Overlook, just beyond the maintenance sheds at Plum Island.
Other reports from the Newburyport/Plum Island area last week included three blue-winged teal, 12 green-winged teal, one American bittern, 20 migrating sharp-shinned hawks, five soras, three upland sandpipers, one whimbrel, one semipalmated sandpiper, eight purple sandpipers, one Caspian tern, two least flycatchers, nine Eastern kingbirds, one fish crow, 30 marsh wrens, 12 brown thrashers, one American pipit, 17 species of wood warblers, including one bay-breasted, one mourning, one hooded warbler, one white-crowned sparrow, one indigo bunting, and five bobolinks.
Reports from Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge last week included at least 17 species of wood warblers, including Tennessee, Cape May, worm-eating, hooded, and Canada warblers, one blue grosbeak, four orchard orioles, and 10 Baltimore orioles. At the Marblehead Neck Sanctuary, there were two least flycatchers, one white-eyed vireo, two wood thrushes, 19 species of wood warblers, including 19 Northern parulas, 10 black-and-whites, eight black-throated blues, one blackpoll, and one Wilson's, 10 ovenbirds, 10 common yellowthroats, four American redstarts, a hooded warbler, and a Canada warbler.
Seen in Medford were three great crested flycatchers, one yellow-throated vireo, 10 wood thrushes, nine brown thrashers, 10 species of wood warblers, including eight Nashville warblers, 11 Northern parulas, one hooded warbler, and one Canada warbler.
Reports from Wompatuck State Park in Hingham included a Northern goshawk, two yellow-billed cuckoos, five wood thrushes, one cerulean warbler, two worm-eating warblers, and one hooded warbler.
Recent reports from Nantucket included two gadwall, two Northern pintail, one bald eagle, 190 roseate terns, 90 common terns, and 80 least terns.
Miscellaneous reports last week included an American bittern in West Newbury, two common ravens and two fish crows in Concord, a worm-eating warbler in Jamaica Plain, a summer tanager in Plymouth, and a Northern harrier and a grasshopper sparrow in Falmouth.
For more information about bird sightings or to report bird sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to massaudubon.org. 
