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Bird sightings in Massachusetts

Bird sightings from the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Lexington: The common ground dove discovered in the Waltham Street Fields property two weeks ago was present last week near several parked tractors in the field where it was originally found.

Plum Island: Among the reports from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge last week were 20 gadwalls, 20 American wigeons, 40 northern pintails, 120 green-winged teals, 20 hooded mergansers, and a bald eagle.

Ipswich: An immature red-headed woodpecker was observed near the first bridge over the salt marsh on Town Farm Road.

Groveland: A pair of tufted ducks was seen on Johnson’s Pond.

Concord: A report from Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge included three gadwalls, four northern shovelers, eight northern pintails, five green-winged teals, eight hooded mergansers, a bald eagle, seven marsh wrens, and a fox sparrow.

Hingham: At the Weir River Farm, a yellow-throated warbler was seen near the intersection of Turkey Hill Lane and Leavitt Street.

Lakeville: Many hundreds of ring-necked ducks, lesser scaups, buffleheads, common goldeneyes, and ruddy ducks have congregated on Little Quittacus Pond off Route 105.

Miscellaneous: Reports last week included a pink-footed goose in the power canal near Barton Cove and Turners Falls in Montague; three cackling geese in a large flock of Canada geese near Nine Acre Corner in Concord; a king eider in front of the Elks at Bass Rocks Club on Atlantic Avenue in Gloucester; a Barrow’s goldeneye on the Sudbury Reservoir in Framingham; two western kingbirds in the field in front of the Cape Cod National Seashore visitor center in Eastham; and a yellow-breasted chat and lark sparrow in a thicket near the entrance to Fort Hill Trail in Eastham.


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