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

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 11, 2024 6:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC Saturday Walk

63 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  4

Mallard  4

Mourning Dove  7

Chimney Swift  3

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2

Killdeer  1

Herring Gull  3

gull sp.  4

Double-crested Cormorant  3

Great Blue Heron  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker  3

Northern Flicker  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  3

Eastern Kingbird  1

Blue-headed Vireo  3

Warbling Vireo  5

Red-eyed Vireo  2

Blue Jay  8

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  9

Tufted Titmouse  4

White-breasted Nuthatch  3

House Wren  3

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  6

Gray Catbird  8

Wood Thrush  3

American Robin  25

House Sparrow  4

House Finch  5

American Goldfinch  8

Chipping Sparrow  10

White-throated Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow  5

Orchard Oriole  1

Baltimore Oriole  8

Red-winged Blackbird  7

Brown-headed Cowbird  7

Common Grackle  11

Ovenbird  5

Black-and-white Warbler  14

Tennessee Warbler  8    singing across the cemetery

Nashville Warbler  3

Common Yellowthroat  4

American Redstart  8

Cape May Warbler  1

Northern Parula  16

Magnolia Warbler  9

Bay-breasted Warbler  9    encountered across the cemetery, with one particular tree containing four individuals

Yellow Warbler  5

Chestnut-sided Warbler  2

Blackpoll Warbler  5

Black-throated Blue Warbler  4

Pine Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  24

Black-throated Green Warbler  14    One of the most common singing warblers present

Wilson’s Warbler  2

Scarlet Tanager  1

Northern Cardinal  6

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  6

Indigo Bunting  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S174082818

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Fri Oct 25 Fall meeting!

The Brookline Bird Club invites you to our Hybrid (Live+Zoom) Fall Meeting on Friday October 25, 2024 from 7pm-9pm, with a social hour beginning at 6:30pm. It will feature a presentation on the dazzling Resplendent Quetzal you

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Are you a BBC Member? Do you have 5 minutes? Tell us what you think about the Blue Book! We want to hear your input on our Brookline Bird Club Bulletins, mailed to members each

Fri Oct 25 Fall meeting!

The Brookline Bird Club invites you to our Hybrid (Live+Zoom) Fall Meeting on Friday October 25, 2024 from 7pm-9pm, with a social hour beginning at 6:30pm. It will feature a presentation on the dazzling Resplendent Quetzal you

Blue Book Survey

Are you a BBC Member? Do you have 5 minutes? Tell us what you think about the Blue Book! We want to hear your input on our Brookline Bird Club Bulletins, mailed to members each

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