Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
May 6, 2025 5:57 AM – 9:28 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.175 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club- Mt Auburn Cemetery- Leader: Kathy Dia- overcast with intermittent rain, mid 50s F. Thanks to Jason B and Jared K and others for leads.
44 species
Mourning Dove 6
Ring-billed Gull 3
Great Blue Heron 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Blue-headed Vireo 3
Warbling Vireo 2
Blue Jay 9
Fish Crow 1 Flew over calling, after walk.
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 2
Northern House Wren (Northern) 3
Carolina Wren 2
European Starling 1
Gray Catbird 12
Wood Thrush 1 Singing in the Dell.
American Robin 23
American Goldfinch 1
Chipping Sparrow 12
White-throated Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 3
Baltimore Oriole 10
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Common Grackle 4
Ovenbird 1 Singing in the Dell; after walk.
Black-and-white Warbler 10
Nashville Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
American Redstart 3
Cape May Warbler 1 Possibly two; seen by all near Halcyon.
Northern Parula 16
Magnolia Warbler 2 One near the Tower; one Laurel Av.
Yellow Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Heard near tower after walk.
Blackpoll Warbler 3 One heard and seen near Halcyon; two above the Dell near the tower.
Black-throated Blue Warbler 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 35
Black-throated Green Warbler 5
Northern Cardinal 4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 One heard between Spectacle and Dell; one singing and visible near the Tower after the walk.
Indigo Bunting 1 After walk Laurel and Sumac, above the Dell.
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