Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
Apr 24, 2026 6:30 AM – 8:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.54 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: 11 people BBC walk
33 species
Canada Goose 2
Mallard 8
Wild Turkey 3
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
Mourning Dove 8
Cooper’s Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 4
Peregrine Falcon 1 On far building
Blue Jay 12
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 Seen and heard
Northern House Wren 1
European Starling 1
Gray Catbird 1
Hermit Thrush 2
American Robin 53
American Goldfinch 9
Chipping Sparrow 12
Dark-eyed Junco 2
White-throated Sparrow 11
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 3
Brown-headed Cowbird 11
Common Grackle 8
Pine Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 3
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S326913898
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Updated April 26,2020: The BBC is sorry to announce that National Audubon has cancelled all 2020 summer camps at Hog Island in Maine, so that our two Young Birder Scholarship recipients, May Adams and
Help Us Archive Old Trips!
The Brookline Bird Club has almost 80 years of field trip reports that we’d like to add to eBird. As one of the oldest bird clubs in the United States, our archive of field
A Look Back to 1918
The date of July 17, 1918 was marked in the calendar of Bostonians as the fifth anniversary of the Brookline Bird Club. There was a birthday party at “Lake Walden” to celebrate the event,
Proposed rules change for the Duck Stamp and Duck Stamp Art Contest
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now proposing a permanent rule change to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Contest (known as the Duck Stamp) that would make the theme “Celebrating Our Waterfowl
BBC 2020 Winter Meeting: Scott Weidensaul
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent’s Natural Soul In 1955, naturalists Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher published their bestselling book Wild America, chronicling a now-legendary 30,000-mile trip across
Fundraising Effort to Memorialize Ida (update)
Ida at Plum Island, undated. The Board of Directors is pleased to announce 73 donations were received totaling $5,615 which far exceeded the goal set. 100% of the funds will go to
Update on Young Birder Scholarships
Updated April 26,2020: The BBC is sorry to announce that National Audubon has cancelled all 2020 summer camps at Hog Island in Maine, so that our two Young Birder Scholarship recipients, May Adams and
Help Us Archive Old Trips!
The Brookline Bird Club has almost 80 years of field trip reports that we’d like to add to eBird. As one of the oldest bird clubs in the United States, our archive of field
A Look Back to 1918
The date of July 17, 1918 was marked in the calendar of Bostonians as the fifth anniversary of the Brookline Bird Club. There was a birthday party at “Lake Walden” to celebrate the event,
Proposed rules change for the Duck Stamp and Duck Stamp Art Contest
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now proposing a permanent rule change to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Contest (known as the Duck Stamp) that would make the theme “Celebrating Our Waterfowl
BBC 2020 Winter Meeting: Scott Weidensaul
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