Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 19, 2025 6:11 AM – 9:41 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.863 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Scheduled BBC Walk. Indian Ridge, Auburn Lake, Dell (extended period), Mound Avenue, Willow Pond, and especially big elm just across Pond Road NW from there; out along Cedar Avenue. Windy, making hearing warbler song difficult.

40 species

Canada Goose  4

Wild Turkey  1

Mourning Dove  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  1    Heard in Dell calling pee-ur repeatedly – before 7 AM

Eastern Kingbird  3

Warbling Vireo  2

Red-eyed Vireo  3

Blue Jay  1

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tufted Titmouse  1

Barn Swallow  1    Willow Pond

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  3

Gray Catbird  6

American Robin  20    Estimate

Cedar Waxwing  15

House Sparrow  4

American Goldfinch  6

Chipping Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  2

Baltimore Oriole  4

Red-winged Blackbird  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  3

Common Grackle  5    Estimate

Black-and-white Warbler  2

Common Yellowthroat  2

American Redstart  6

Northern Parula  1

Magnolia Warbler  1

Bay-breasted Warbler  2

Yellow Warbler  2

Blackpoll Warbler  1    Heard singing only

Black-throated Blue Warbler  2

Black-throated Green Warbler  1

Canada Warbler  1    In big elm just across road west of Willow Pond

Scarlet Tanager  1

Northern Cardinal  5

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S240386320

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