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

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