Here are this week’s bird sightings from the Voice of Audubon for western Massachusetts.
The mountain bluebird at the Turners Falls Airport has not been reported this week. Two cackling geese and a little gull were found in Turners Falls, though.
Two cackling geese, a red-headed woodpecker and an orange-crowned warbler were seen in Northampton.
Two Bonaparte’s gulls were found at Pontoosuc Lake, and a red-necked grebe was seen in Ludlow.
A long-tailed duck, a golden eagle and a Bonaparte’s gull were reported at the southern end of the Quabbin Reservoir, and golden eagles were also seen in Sheffield and Granville.
A brant continues to be seen at the campus pond at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and in the nearby fields in Hadley. A red-headed woodpecker continues to be reported in Belchertown.
Other uncommon, lingering or arriving waterfowl included: American wigeon, green-winged teal, lesser scaup, greater scaup, bufflehead, common goldeneye, hooded merganser, common loon, horned grebe, pied-billed grebe, double-crested cormorant and American coot.
Also seen were black vulture, northern harrier, peregrine falcon, merlin, American kestrel, horned lark, American pipit, snow bunting, red-breasted nuthatch, winter wren, hermit thrush, blackpoll warbler, common yellowthroat, fox sparrow, chipping sparrow, grackle, red-winged blackbird, rusty blackbird, pine siskin, evening grosbeak and pine grosbeak.