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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 6, 2026 6:15 AM – 8:45 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC walk, led by David Scott. Lots of birds at the end of Indian Ridge early, and busy at Laurel Circle and the Dell later

46 species

Canada Goose  2

Mallard  3

Wild Turkey  2

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4

Mourning Dove  3

Chimney Swift  2

Double-crested Cormorant  1    Distant flyby

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Great Horned Owl  1    Chick next to the nest

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker  1    Heard only

Peregrine Falcon  1    Watertown Tower

Great Crested Flycatcher  1    Heard only

Eastern Kingbird  1

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Eastern Warbling Vireo  3

Blue Jay  5

White-breasted Nuthatch  3

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  1    Heard

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  12

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  20

Cedar Waxwing  2    Passed a berry back and forward to each other a few times

House Finch  4

American Goldfinch  2    Feeding on dandelion seeds

Chipping Sparrow  3

Savannah Sparrow  1    Halcyon Pond

Baltimore Oriole  12

Red-winged Blackbird  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  3

Common Grackle  10

Ovenbird  1

Black-and-white Warbler  3

Common Yellowthroat  1    Heard

Northern Parula  1

Magnolia Warbler  1    Dell

Bay-breasted Warbler  1    Indian Ridge, near Halcyon Pond

Northern Yellow Warbler  1    Heard, Dell

Yellow-rumped Warbler  10

Prairie Warbler  1    Seen briefly at Halcyon, then at the Dell

Black-throated Green Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S333636235

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