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

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 23, 2024 6:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, led by David Scott. Quiet early on, but more song as we were leaving the cemetery

40 species

Mallard  2

Wild Turkey  1

Mourning Dove  2

Chimney Swift  4

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Eastern Kingbird  1

Warbling Vireo  1

Red-eyed Vireo  1    heard

Blue Jay  3

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  1

House Wren  2

Gray Catbird  5

Veery  1    singing near entrance

Swainson’s Thrush  1    Heard near tower

Wood Thrush  1    Dell, seen briefly

American Robin  12

Cedar Waxwing  7

House Finch  4

American Goldfinch  3

Chipping Sparrow  1    heard

Song Sparrow  1

Baltimore Oriole  2

Red-winged Blackbird  1

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  12

Louisiana Waterthrush  1    Dell, seen well, broad bright eye stripe. Another birder had photos

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  1    heard

American Redstart  3

Northern Parula  1

Blackburnian Warbler  1    heard, Indian Ridge

Blackpoll Warbler  1    heard

Black-throated Green Warbler  1    heard

Scarlet Tanager  1    female

Northern Cardinal  2

Indigo Bunting  1    Tower, singing

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S176621202

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