Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 2, 2025 5:57 AM – 8:40 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.7 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC walk, 11 plus leader

45 species (+1 other taxa)

Mallard  2

Hooded Merganser  1    Female on Auburn lake

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1

Mourning Dove  5

gull sp.  1

Great Blue Heron  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Warbling Vireo  5

Blue Jay  4

Fish Crow  3

Common Raven  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  1

Tree Swallow  1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  3

Carolina Wren  1

Gray Catbird  5

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  24

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  4

Chipping Sparrow  6

Field Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  8

Song Sparrow  1

Baltimore Oriole  9

Red-winged Blackbird  10

Brown-headed Cowbird  6

Common Grackle  8

Blue-winged Warbler  1

Black-and-white Warbler  4

Nashville Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  1

Northern Parula  1

Magnolia Warbler  1

Yellow Warbler  1

Palm Warbler  3

Yellow-rumped Warbler  24

Black-throated Green Warbler  3

Northern Cardinal  5

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S232742929

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