Recent bird sightings in Massachusetts

Recent seabird sightings at Stellwagen Bank included 270 Cory’s shearwaters; roughly 3,500 greater shearwaters; 700 sooty shearwaters; 1,500 distant, unidentified shearwaters; and 130 Wilson’s storm-petrels.

Viewed in Cape Cod Bay from Corn Hill in Truro were 155 Cory’s shearwaters, six greater shearwaters, 41 sooty shearwaters, one Manx shearwater, and 19 Wilson’s storm-petrels.

At Plymouth Beach there were two semipalmated sandpipers, 21 short-billed dowitchers, 200 laughing gulls, 800 common terns, and an Arctic tern.

Birds recorded as part of the Breeding Bird Atlas project in the Gate 40 area of Quabbin Reservoir included seven common loons, five Virginia rails, 11 yellow-bellied sapsuckers, three pileated woodpeckers, 16 Eastern wood-pewees, three yellow-throated vireos, 15 blue-headed vireos, 76 red-eyed vireos, three winter wrens, four golden-crowned kinglets, 17 hermit thrushes, 15 scarlet tanagers, and 11 species of wood warblers, including 17 chestnut-sided, 37 black-throated blues, 14 yellow-rumped, and 36 pine.

A report from Belle Isle marsh in East Boston included eight greater yellowlegs, two lesser yellowlegs, 17 least sandpipers, one short-billed dowitcher, and eight saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrows.

Miscellaneous reports last week included three red knots and three seaside sparrows at Plum Island, 25 little blue herons at Kettle Island in Manchester-by-the-Sea, 15 Northern rough-winged swallows in Gloucester, 11 Manx shearwaters off Revere Beach, 16 wood ducks and an osprey at the Great Meadows refuge in Concord, and a glossy ibis at Nine Acre Corner in Concord.

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