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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 21, 2024 5:55 AM – 8:21 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.418 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC- Mt Auburn- Leader: Kathy Dia- sunny and clear mid 50’s to 60 but start of a very warm day.

47 species

Canada Goose  2

Mallard  2

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1

Mourning Dove  1

Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1    Oak near Harvard Hill. Lucy ,in my group, spotted the bird but hidden, then relocated by Randy.

Chimney Swift  8

Great Blue Heron  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  3

Eastern Kingbird  2

Warbling Vireo  3

Red-eyed Vireo  3

Blue Jay  9

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  2

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

House Wren  4

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  13

Wood Thrush  1

American Robin  33

Cedar Waxwing  10

House Sparrow  2

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  2

Chipping Sparrow  7

Song Sparrow  3

Baltimore Oriole  7

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  6

Common Grackle  10

Ovenbird  1

Common Yellowthroat  1

Hooded Warbler  1    After the walk I went back to the Dell. I heard this bird loudly singing it’s classic “wheeta wheeta wheetio” song loudly! A photographer Dylan first got eyes on it.

American Redstart  3

Northern Parula  1

Magnolia Warbler  1

Bay-breasted Warbler  1

Blackburnian Warbler  2

Yellow Warbler  4

Chestnut-sided Warbler  2

Blackpoll Warbler  2

Black-throated Green Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  5

Indigo Bunting  1    After the walk Dell.

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S176621026

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

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