► Martha’s Vineyard: interesting storm sightings featured bridled, royal, and Sandwich terns.
► Nantucket: highlights included Leach’s and band-rumped storm-petrels, four American golden-plovers, one Hudsonian godwit, two Baird’s sandpipers, one buff-breasted sandpiper, several sooty terns, hundreds of black terns, one sandwich tern, and one long-tailed jaeger.
► Westport: one Leach’s storm-petrel, three band-rumped storm-petrels, six sooty terns, and two bridled terns.
► Plum Island: one Baird’s sandpiper, one buff-breasted sandpiper, eight Forster’s terns, one Caspian tern, five black skimmers, one little gull, both black-billed and yellow-billed cuckoos, one northern waterthrush, and one blackpoll warbler.
► Concord: nine blue-winged teal, three least bitterns, two great egrets, three Virginia rails, two soras, one pileated woodpecker, 13 warbling vireos, 23 marsh wrens, two blue-gray gnatcatchers, and 76 bobolinks.
► Winthrop: one blue-winged teal, one northern pintail, 13 American oystercatchers, two black skimmers, and one pied-billed grebe.
► Provincetown: 30 Cory’s shearwaters, one harlequin duck, two Hudsonian godwits, two Baird’s sandpipers, one black-legged kittiwake, two Sabine’s gulls, two lesser black-backed gulls, 60 black terns, one black skimmer, and 10 parasitic jaegers.
► Miscellaneous reports: Seven common moorhens in a marsh on J.B. Little Road in Groveland; one black-necked stilt at Nauset Marsh in Eastham; one red phalarope and a Caspian tern at Third Cliff in Scituate; one bridled tern off Mass. Maritime Academy in Bourne; one bridled tern and a gull-billed tern at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham; one royal tern at Manomet; one sandwich tern at North Beach in Chatham; three pomarine jaegers at South Cape Beach in Mashpee; two black skimmers at Point of Pines in Revere, two in Essex, and seven at Duxbury Beach; and 244 migrating common nighthawks at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
For more information about bird sightings or to report bird sightings, call Mass. Audubon at 781-259-8805 or go to www.mass audubon.org.
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