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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