Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 18, 2026 6:15 AM – 9:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, led by David Scott. Frustrating walk, couldn’t find very much for the first couple of hours despite covering a lot of ground, and we had to work hard to see what we did. Good activity towards the end along Beech and Central Avenues.

40 species

Mallard  2

Wild Turkey  2

Mourning Dove  5

Chimney Swift  5

American Herring Gull  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1    Making the Robins nervous

Red-tailed Hawk  1    Being scolded by Jays and Robins at Halcyon Pond

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Warbling Vireo  3

Red-eyed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  10

Tufted Titmouse  1    Heard

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  3

European Starling  3

Gray Catbird  6

Veery  1

American Robin  12

Cedar Waxwing  8    Flyovers

Chipping Sparrow  3

Baltimore Oriole  5

Red-winged Blackbird  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  10

Common Grackle  8

Black-and-white Warbler  2

Tennessee Warbler  1    Might have been more, seen briefly at the end of the walk

Common Yellowthroat  2

American Redstart  2

Northern Parula  3    Good looks at one late in the walk

Magnolia Warbler  2    Heard only

Blackburnian Warbler  1    Made us work for it

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Blackpoll Warbler  3    One seen briefly at the end of the walk

Yellow-rumped Warbler  3

Black-throated Green Warbler  4

Canada Warbler  1    Below the tower, buried deep in a yew, singing often. Briefly glimpsed by a few birders

Scarlet Tanager  2    Saw a Female late in the walk. Male singing

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S342014580

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