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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