Here are this week’s bird sightings from the Voice of Audubon for western Massachusetts:
A black-crowned night-heron is still being seen in Springfield’s Forest Park.
One sharp-shinned hawk was reported in Longmeadow and another in Hadley.
A red-crossbill was heard flying over Belchertown.
A lesser scaup was found again on the southern end of the Quabbin Reservoir.
A glossy Ibis was seen at the Arcadia sanctuary in Easthampton.
A pied-billed grebe was found on the Lower Mill Pond in Easthampton.
Uncommon residents reported included hooded merganser, American bittern, green heron, Virginia rail, red-shouldered hawk, American woodcock, whip-poor-will and fish crow.
Plus there were a variety of summer songbirds, including cliff swallow, red-breasted nuthatch, brown creeper, winter wren, hermit thrush, prairie warbler, dark-eyed junco, white-throated sparrow, orchard oriole, evening grosbeak and purple finch.