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
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