Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 16, 2025 6:00 AM – 8:20 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC walk, led by David Scott. Quiet for this time of year, and no sign of yesterday’s Kentucky Warbler

31 species

Wild Turkey  1

Mourning Dove  4

Chimney Swift  3

American Herring Gull  2

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  3

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Warbling Vireo  2    heard

Red-eyed Vireo  2

Blue Jay  3

Black-capped Chickadee  1    heard

Northern House Wren  2

Gray Catbird  5

American Robin  8

Cedar Waxwing  19

Chipping Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  1

Baltimore Oriole  5

Red-winged Blackbird  1    heard

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Common Grackle  3

Ovenbird  1

Black-and-white Warbler  3

Common Yellowthroat  1

American Redstart  1

Northern Parula  1    heard

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Blackpoll Warbler  3    Decent looks at one on Harvard Hill

Northern Cardinal  3    Family

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S238917001

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