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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

Apr 16, 2025 6:30 AM – 8:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.3 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC Opening Day at Mt Auburn for spring migration.  $$ degrees, sunny, 10-15 mph westerly wind. Unexpected raptor show – a fine kickoff !  Most surprising – not a single Kinglet!

28 species

Canada Goose  2

Mallard  4

Turkey Vulture  4

Sharp-shinned Hawk  2

Broad-winged Hawk  1    First found perched in a spruce tree; it took flight.  Later had another small buteo that could possibly have been a 2nd BWHA but ID was not confirmed.

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  3

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  1

Eastern Phoebe  8

Blue Jay  6

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  54

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  2

Northern Mockingbird  2

Hermit Thrush  2    Dry Dell

American Robin  25

American Goldfinch  1

Chipping Sparrow  1

Dark-eyed Junco  13

White-throated Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow  3

Red-winged Blackbird  5

Common Grackle  5

Palm Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  7

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S226770125

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th [...]

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th [...]

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th [...]

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