Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

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

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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