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

Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
18-May-2023 06:00 – 09:00
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    BBC Walk, chilly 41 degrees, sunny but surprisingly birdy!
54 species
Mallard  1
Wild Turkey  1
Mourning Dove  4
Chimney Swift  5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Peregrine Falcon  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Warbling Vireo  3
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  5
Common Raven  1
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Tree Swallow  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
House Wren  1
Gray Catbird  3
Veery  1
Swainson’s Thrush  1
American Robin  12
Cedar Waxwing  4
American Goldfinch  4
Chipping Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  3
Baltimore Oriole  12
Red-winged Blackbird  7
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
Common Grackle  5
Ovenbird  2
Northern Waterthrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  3
Tennessee Warbler  3
Mourning Warbler  1    Heard only in the Dell
Common Yellowthroat  4
American Redstart  1
Cape May Warbler  3
Northern Parula  5
Magnolia Warbler  4
Bay-breasted Warbler  8    probably undercounted
Yellow Warbler  2
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler  3
Pine Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  3
Black-throated Green Warbler  6
Canada Warbler  1    heard only on Indian Ridge
Wilson’s Warbler  1
Scarlet Tanager  5    2 males, 3 femaies
Northern Cardinal  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S138431859

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th [...]

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th [...]

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th [...]

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