Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

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

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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