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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 6, 2025 5:57 AM – 9:28 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.175 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club- Mt Auburn Cemetery- Leader: Kathy Dia- overcast with intermittent rain, mid 50s F. Thanks to Jason B and Jared K and others for leads.

44 species

Mourning Dove  6

Ring-billed Gull  3

Great Blue Heron  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Blue-headed Vireo  3

Warbling Vireo  2

Blue Jay  9

Fish Crow  1    Flew over calling, after walk.

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  3

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

Northern House Wren (Northern)  3

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  12

Wood Thrush  1    Singing in the Dell.

American Robin  23

American Goldfinch  1

Chipping Sparrow  12

White-throated Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow  3

Baltimore Oriole  10

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  6

Brown-headed Cowbird  4

Common Grackle  4

Ovenbird  1    Singing in the Dell; after walk.

Black-and-white Warbler  10

Nashville Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  3

American Redstart  3

Cape May Warbler  1    Possibly two; seen by all near Halcyon.

Northern Parula  16

Magnolia Warbler  2    One near the Tower; one Laurel Av.

Yellow Warbler  1

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1    Heard near tower after walk.

Blackpoll Warbler  3    One heard and seen near Halcyon; two above the Dell near the tower.

Black-throated Blue Warbler  6

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  35

Black-throated Green Warbler  5

Northern Cardinal  4

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2    One heard between Spectacle and Dell; one singing and visible near the Tower after the walk.

Indigo Bunting  1    After walk Laurel and Sumac, above the Dell.

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S233995731

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