Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

Apr 28, 2019 6:25 AM – 9:46 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.0 mile(s)

Comments:    BBC Walk, J. Forbes leader, 14ish participants. 49, sunny start, cloudy finish

37 species

Canada Goose  2

Mallard  1

Wild Turkey  4    2 in the trees in the Dell

Mourning Dove  5

Herring Gull (American)  3

Double-crested Cormorant  14

Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  3

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  1    (Leader only)

Blue Jay  15

Black-capped Chickadee  3

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

House Wren (Northern)  2

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2

American Robin  30

Northern Mockingbird  1

European Starling  1

House Finch  3

American Goldfinch  1

Chipping Sparrow  15

White-throated Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  2

Eastern Towhee  1

Baltimore Oriole  3

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  10

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  40

Orange-crowned Warbler  1    **very rare seasonally, continuing. Oak Ave just above Spectacle corner.  Dull yellow warbler all the way down to the tail. Tail dark. Thin bill, eye arcs and hint of a supercilium. Sang a little, a short trill. Lousy photos although others in the group had better.

Pine Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  3

House Sparrow  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55583434