Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

14-Jan-2024 07:41 – 10:21

Protocol: Traveling

2.85 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club- Mt. Auburn Cemetery – Leader: Kathy Dia – Partly cloudy, low 30″s after a night of rain, light breeze. We walked to the three ponds Halcyon, Auburn, Willow. We had no luck seeing the Orange-crowned Warbler on the walk proper, but a few of us returned to Willow Pond after the walk and did see the bird.

29 species

Mallard  4

Hooded Merganser  1    Lake Auburn

Mourning Dove  15

Herring Gull  2

Great Blue Heron  2

Sharp-shinned Hawk  1    Halcyon

Red-tailed Hawk  5

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Blue Jay  12

Black-capped Chickadee  6

Tufted Titmouse  4

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1    Willow Pond

Golden-crowned Kinglet  5

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  3

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  10

American Robin  90

Cedar Waxwing  5

House Finch  3

American Goldfinch  8

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  18

White-throated Sparrow  17

Song Sparrow  5

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  9

Common Grackle  1    Halcyon

Orange-crowned Warbler (Gray-headed)  1    *Rare, continuing since 11/3 at Willow Pond suet feeder. A second individual has been reported in the cemetery at Lake Auburn. Seen after the walk by several participants who returned to Willow.

Northern Cardinal  8

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S159025976