Lowell Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
May 9, 2019 6:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Comments:    16 folks joined me for a bird walk co-sponsored by the Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust and the Brookline Bird Club on a spectacular spring morning with blue skies, very little wind and temps starting in the 40s and rising steadily. We spent a good deal of time on the adjacent Concord River Greenway getting great looks at Yellow and Yellow-rumped Warblers and Baltimore Orioles before finishing in the cemetery and picking up some additional species.
44 species
Wood Duck  1
Mallard  4
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  2
Chimney Swift  25    This is a low estimate and I have never seen this many Swifts over the Concord River at one time in spring before. All the more curious as the derelict brick chimney on Centennial Island was recently dismantled.
Ring-billed Gull  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Warbling Vireo  6
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  3
Common Raven  1
Tufted Titmouse  3
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
American Robin  15
European Starling  4
American Goldfinch  3
White-throated Sparrow  4    Still singing, surprised they haven’t gone north yet.
Song Sparrow  4
Baltimore Oriole  6
Red-winged Blackbird  2
Brown-headed Cowbird  3
Common Grackle  4
Black-and-white Warbler  3
Nashville Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  1
Northern Parula  7
Magnolia Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  10
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  20
Northern Cardinal  3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
House Sparrow  2
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S56097417

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