Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

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

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