Bird Sightings

July 17, 2011

Recent bird sighting, as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

► Plum Island: five blue-winged teal, 110 gadwalls, two green-winged teal, two bald eagles, 135 lesser yellowlegs, 400 least sandpipers, one white-rumped sandpiper, two dunlin, one stilt sandpiper, 540 short-billed dowitchers, six seaside sparrows, one out-of-season white-crowned sparrow, and one orchard oriole.

► Chatham: two brant, 50 semipalmated plovers, four Hudsonian godwits, one marbled godwit, two western sandpipers, one white-rumped sandpiper, and 179 short-billed dowitchers.

► Miscellaneous reports: three Cory’s shearwaters, 40 great shearwaters, 125 sooty shearwaters, a Manx shearwater, and 115 Wlson’s storm-petrels were spotted on a recent whale watching trip out of Plymouth to Stellwagen Bank; one king eider and two long-tailed ducks in Gloucester Harbor; one bald eagle in Provincetown; 32 Bonaparte’s gulls and one black tern at Plymouth Beach; one royal tern at Yirrell Beach in Winthrop; and one to two Chuck-will’s-widows at the town landing at the end of Pochet Road in Orleans.

A swallow-tailed kite observed on the Chatham/Harwich town line on Monday has not been observed since, nor has the Little Egret seen at Plum Island last Sunday.

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