Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 20, 2026 7:02 AM – 8:41 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.69 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Sunny, hot, humid low wind morning but still pleasant up to the time we knocked off.  Probably undercounts on many of the more common species (chickadee, blackbird, cowbird), but good group consensus on others.  Nice group of birders/variety of experience.  Jeremiah Trimble was leading a larger group in front of us which slowed our progress but helped us to sit and pay attention.  In compensation, they found a golden-winged warbler which we were unable to locate although Merlin one time picked out its quite distinctive song from among a cacophony; sadly, we were unable to either hear or see it.

41 species

Canada Goose  4

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1

Mourning Dove  3

American Herring Gull  1

Osprey  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Warbling Vireo  4

Red-eyed Vireo  4

Blue Jay  6

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  3

Tree Swallow  4

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  4

Gray Catbird  7

American Robin  10

Cedar Waxwing  2

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  5

Chipping Sparrow  6

Baltimore Oriole  5

Red-winged Blackbird  4

Brown-headed Cowbird  5

Common Grackle  6

Common Yellowthroat  1

American Redstart  5

Northern Parula  2

Magnolia Warbler  2

Bay-breasted Warbler  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  3

Blackpoll Warbler  6

Black-throated Green Warbler  2

Canada Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  6

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

Indigo Bunting  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S343512717

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