Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society: A Western tanager was spotted Friday just to the west of the Boston Public Garden lagoon. Other birds there included a barred owl and a late black-throated green warbler.
Both the Townsend’s warbler at Wing Island in Brewster and the lark bunting at the Cumberland Farms fields in Middleborough were last reported Monday.
The seven geese that have been commuting between their roost at Stage Island on Plum Island and their feeding area in the fields bordered by Northgate Road and Route 133 in Ipswich were still present Friday.
Other reports from Plum Island last week included 25 Northern shovelers, 30 green-winged teal, 15 greater scaup, three greater yellowlegs, six white-rumped sandpipers, a Northern shrike, and a lark sparrow.
Seen on a boat trip down the Merrimac River from Amesbury, through Newburyport Harbor, and into the waters east of Plum Island were three common goldeneye, eight long-tailed ducks, roughly 500 common eiders, 350 black scoters, 500 white-winged scoters, 800 red-throated loons, 60 common loons, and two horned grebes.
Two-day totals of seabirds counted at Race Point in Provincetown on Wednesday and Thursday included six red-necked grebes, 430 greater shearwaters, a sooty shearwater, roughly 2,100 Northern gannets, 65 black-legged kittiwakes, 665 Bonaparte’s gulls, 120 common terns, three Pomarine jaegers, six parasitic jaegers, two Atlantic puffins, 43 razorbills, and one thick-billed murre.
Miscellaneous reports last week included four red-headed woodpeckers in Lowell, an orange-crowned warbler in the Fenway section of Boston, a vesper sparrow in Middleborough, and single Western kingbirds in Gloucester and at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield.
For more information or to report sightings, call 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org. 
