Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
May 13, 2018 6:00 AM – 10:18 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC walk, J. Forbes leader. Cool and cloudy, light was pretty awful for the first couple hours.
56 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  1
Mallard (Northern)  1
Wild Turkey  2
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1
Herring Gull (American)  6
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3
Mourning Dove  4
Chimney Swift  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Least Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  4
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Blue Jay  5
Common Raven  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  1
Swainson’s Thrush  1
Catharus sp.  1
American Robin  25
Gray Catbird  5
Brown Thrasher  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  3
Ovenbird  3
Northern Waterthrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  8
Common Yellowthroat  1
Cape May Warbler  1
Northern Parula  8
Magnolia Warbler  5
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  2
Blackpoll Warbler  4
Black-throated Blue Warbler  3
Palm Warbler (Yellow)  1
Pine Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  15
Black-throated Green Warbler  4
Chipping Sparrow  8
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  2
Orchard Oriole  1
Baltimore Oriole  10
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  8
Common Grackle (Bronzed)  20
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  5

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45939660

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