Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 3, 2026 6:23 AM – 9:27 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.72 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC (J. Forbes leader) 47, cloudy start, cleared around 7:30, then clouded back over and got cold and windy. Indian Ridge, Dry Dell, Spectacle, Harvard Hill to tower, Willow.

52 species

Mallard  5

Wild Turkey  2

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3

Mourning Dove  6

American Herring Gull  2

Double-crested Cormorant  4

Black-crowned Night Heron  1    Willow

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1    Caught and swallowed a large fish at Willow in less time than it takes to raise a camera

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  2

Great Horned Owl  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1    Indian Ridge

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Peregrine Falcon (North American)  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1    Calling Harvard Hill

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Eastern Warbling Vireo  1

Blue Jay  7

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

Red-breasted Nuthatch  3    2 Foraging on the ground near Willow

Northern House Wren (Northern)  2

Gray Catbird  3

Northern Mockingbird  1

Hermit Thrush  2    Michealle only

American Robin  40

Cedar Waxwing  4    One acting like it was sitting on a nest

House Sparrow  4

Pine Siskin  1    Over Indian Ridge and again at Spectacle

American Goldfinch  4

Chipping Sparrow  20

White-throated Sparrow  5

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  2

Baltimore Oriole  6

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  4

Brown-headed Cowbird  8

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  5

Ovenbird  1    Dry Dell

Black-and-white Warbler  5

Nashville Warbler  1    Harvard Hill, heard only

Common Yellowthroat  1

Northern Parula  3

Northern Yellow Warbler  1    Michealle/Bob only

Palm Warbler (Yellow)  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  25

Prairie Warbler  1    Michealle/Bob only

Black-throated Green Warbler  3

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S333234024