Here are this week’s bird sightings from the Western Massachusetts Voice of Audubon.
A brant has been lingering at the campus pond on the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
A Bonaparte’s gull was seen on Pontoosuc Lake and two at the southern end of the Quabbin Reservoir.
Single Iceland gulls were found in Northampton and at Turners Falls.
A flock of 23 common redpolls was heard flying overhead in Northampton.
Two lapland longspurs were also found in Northampton.
A white-winged scoter was reported in Ludlow and two black scoters at the southern end of the Quabbin Reservoir.
A long-tailed duck was seen in Otis and 29 were on the Quabbin Reservoir.
Ruddy ducks were reported in Otis and Ludlow.
White-fronted geese were seen in Hampden and North Adams, and a cackling goose was found in Northampton.
A red-headed woodpecker continues to be seen at Lake Wallace in Belchertown.
Other, lingering or arriving waterfowl and shorebirds included northern pintail, American wigeon, ring-necked duck, bufflehead, red-breasted merganser, common loon, horned grebe, pied-billed grebe, double-crested cormorant, American coot, and pectoral sandpiper.
Also reported were American woodcock, northern harrier, merlin, phoebe, horned lark, American pipit, winter wren, hermit thrush, palm warbler, fox sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, towhee, eastern meadowlark, rusty blackbird, snow bunting, pine siskin, purple finch and evening grosbeak.