Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

Apr 24, 2025 6:25 AM – 9:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC- Mt. Auburn Cemetery – Leader: Kathy Dia – Partly cloudy, 50-65 F. Initial walk to Halcyon, Spectacle and Dell then back through the dry dell. Then about six of us went back to Spectacle to look for the night-herons that had been reported. Thank you to all on the walk for your great spotting!

34 species

Mallard  6

Wild Turkey  1    Heard

Mourning Dove  5

Double-crested Cormorant  6

Black-crowned Night Heron  2    Walk extension. Two adults perched in a tree on Lake Auburn (Spectacle)

Green Heron  1    Walk Extension-Lake Auburn

Great Blue Heron  1

Barred Owl  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1    Heard

Great Crested Flycatcher  1    *Rare- early. Seen in the Dell then relocated calling in the dry dell. Photos and audio.Looks like this individual may be the first one in the MA this spring.

Blue-headed Vireo  2    One briefly during the walk and one on the extension.

Blue Jay  13

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  4

Golden-crowned Kinglet  1    Walk extension – Halcyon.

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Northern House Wren (Northern)  2

Carolina Wren  1

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  50

American Goldfinch  4

Chipping Sparrow  3

White-throated Sparrow  8

Song Sparrow  4

Swamp Sparrow  1    Heard

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  8

Brown-headed Cowbird  6

Common Grackle  19

Palm Warbler (Yellow)  4

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  7

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S229385636