Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 16, 2026 5:39 AM – 9:36 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.783 mile(s)

57 species (+1 other taxa)

Mallard  3

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2

Mourning Dove  4

Chimney Swift  6

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

American Herring Gull  3

Double-crested Cormorant  5

Black-crowned Night Heron  2

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Hairy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  3

Great Crested Flycatcher  3

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Eastern Warbling Vireo  3

Red-eyed Vireo  3

Blue Jay  12

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  3

White-breasted Nuthatch  4

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  5

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  17

Veery  1

Catharus sp.  1

Wood Thrush  1

American Robin  43

House Sparrow  3

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  6

Chipping Sparrow  15

White-crowned Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  2

Baltimore Oriole  10

Red-winged Blackbird  4

Brown-headed Cowbird  15

Common Grackle  4

Ovenbird  1

Black-and-white Warbler  14

Nashville Warbler  4

Common Yellowthroat  4

American Redstart  18

Cape May Warbler  2

Northern Parula  22

Magnolia Warbler  11    Most of any single day – ubiquitous about the cemetery

Northern Yellow Warbler  2

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Blackpoll Warbler  1

Black-throated Blue Warbler  5

Yellow-rumped Warbler  18

Black-throated Green Warbler  16    Ubiquitous

Wilson’s Warbler  2

Scarlet Tanager  2

Northern Cardinal  2

Indigo Bunting  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S341269020

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