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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

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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