Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 24, 2024 6:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, led by David Scott

35 species

Mallard  1

Wild Turkey  18    2 family groups, one with 9 chicks, one with 5.

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2

Mourning Dove  2

Chimney Swift  2

Herring Gull  1

Great Blue Heron  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  2    heard

Eastern Kingbird  1

Warbling Vireo  1    heard

Red-eyed Vireo  1    heard

Blue Jay  4

Tufted Titmouse  1    heard

Barn Swallow  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  1    heard

House Wren  3

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  3

Wood Thrush  1

American Robin  10

Cedar Waxwing  1

Chipping Sparrow  2

Baltimore Oriole  3

Red-winged Blackbird  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Common Grackle  8

American Redstart  2

Magnolia Warbler  1

Blackburnian Warbler  3

Blackpoll Warbler  4    Good looks at a female and a male

Pine Warbler  2    male and female

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S177250360

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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