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Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
May 16, 2018 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments:     The third Wednesday evening walk was a relative bonanza compared with the first two, very quiet ones. The hotspot was from Spectacle Pond to the white oak tree above it on Oak Avenue.
35 species (+1 other taxa)

Mallard  1
Wild Turkey  1
gull sp.  1
Mourning Dove  3
Chimney Swift  10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  1     seen at the end of Central Ave.
Warbling Vireo  3
Blue Jay  3
Black-capped Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  3
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Swainson’s Thrush  2
American Robin  X
Gray Catbird  6
Worm-eating Warbler  1     singing from a maple tree at the end of Central Ave.; witnessed by several incl. the BBC trip
Common Yellowthroat  1
Cape May Warbler  2     In the “magic oak” on Oak Ave. Male and female in same tree, seen well by several observers.
Northern Parula  1
Magnolia Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  6
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Wilson’s Warbler  1
Chipping Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  3
Baltimore Oriole  7
Red-winged Blackbird  4
Common Grackle  5
American Goldfinch  3
House Sparrow  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45939798

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