Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 22, 2024 6:20 AM – 9:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC walk co-led by Leslie Kramer and Jonathan Layman

46 species

Canada Goose  1    Heard

Mallard  2

Wild Turkey  1    Noisy tom

Mourning Dove  6

Chimney Swift  8

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  3

Eastern Kingbird  2

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  2    Heard

Red-eyed Vireo  3

Blue Jay  2

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  1    Heard

Tree Swallow  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1    Heard

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  1    Heard

House Wren (Northern)  6

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  6

Swainson’s Thrush (Olive-backed)  1

Wood Thrush  1    Heard

American Robin  53

Cedar Waxwing  20

House Sparrow  2

House Finch  5

Chipping Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  2

Eastern Towhee  1

Baltimore Oriole  7

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  3    Heard

Brown-headed Cowbird  5

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  14    Observed two males fighting over the rights to a live frog in the margins of the Dell pond

Common Yellowthroat  2

American Redstart  3

Northern Parula  1

Magnolia Warbler  2

Bay-breasted Warbler  2

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1    Heard

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Blackpoll Warbler  2

Pine Warbler  1    Heard

Black-throated Green Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  4

Indigo Bunting  1    Heard

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S176621061

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