Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 13, 2026 6:15 AM – 8:15 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC – Mount Auburn Cemetery – Leader: Rachel Cox

38 species (+2 other taxa)

Mallard  1

Wild Turkey  1    Heard only

Mourning Dove  4

Chimney Swift  6

gull sp.  4    Fly-overs

Double-crested Cormorant  5    All fly-overs

Great Blue Heron  2    Fly-over pair

Great Horned Owl  1    Seen from Oak Ave in pine tree near Citron Ave.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1    heard only

Downy Woodpecker  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  1

Eastern Warbling Vireo  1

Blue Jay  3

American Crow  2

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  1

Gray Catbird  4

American Robin  12

Cedar Waxwing  4

American Goldfinch  2

Chipping Sparrow  3

Baltimore Oriole  6

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  2

blackbird sp.  1    Possible orchard oriole, dropped out of sight before most folks could see.

Ovenbird  3    1 seen, 2 additional heard together

Black-and-white Warbler  4

Nashville Warbler  1    Heard only

American Redstart  2

Northern Parula  3    Heard only

Magnolia Warbler  1

Blackburnian Warbler  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  3

Yellow-rumped Warbler  15

Black-throated Green Warbler  2

Wilson’s Warbler  1

Scarlet Tanager  2    Mature male and female

Northern Cardinal  1

Indigo Bunting  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S341268118

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