Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

Apr 20, 2025 6:34 AM – 8:56 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.3 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC trip (J. Forbes leader). Very windy but warm and sunny. Coyote with breakfast (rabbit?) on the ridge above Spectacle was also a highlight.

37 species

Canada Goose  2

Wood Duck  2    Flyovers at Willow

Mallard  3

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1

Mourning Dove  4

American Herring Gull  5

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Northern Harrier  1    *unusual, flew through while we were heading to Palm Ave. Mostly behind trees but long wings and tail obvious and caught a glimpse of the white rump patch at one point

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  6

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4

Peregrine Falcon (North American)  1    Leader only flyover leaving front of Dry Dell

Eastern Phoebe  3

Blue Jay  6

Common Raven  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  20    Close to a dozen (including a few Golden-crowned) in one tree along Fir Ave

Golden-crowned Kinglet  4

Brown Creeper  1

European Starling  1

Northern Mockingbird  1

Hermit Thrush (faxoni/crymophilus)  9

American Robin  30

American Goldfinch  3

Chipping Sparrow  7

Field Sparrow  1

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  8

White-throated Sparrow  5

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  4

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  8

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  30

Palm Warbler (Yellow)  10    Mostly/all Halcyon

Pine Warbler  4

Northern Cardinal  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S230608273