Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 7, 2024 5:33 AM – 9:15 AM

Protocol: Traveling

4.043 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club- Leader: Kathy Dia- pleasant upper 50’’ to upper 60’s F.

50 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  1

Wild Turkey  2

Mourning Dove  6

Chimney Swift  1

gull sp.  1

Black-crowned Night Heron  2

Great Blue Heron  3

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Eastern Phoebe  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  3

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Warbling Vireo  2

Red-eyed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  12

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  6

Tufted Titmouse  1

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

House Wren  2

European Starling  2

Gray Catbird  4

Veery  1

American Robin  50

Cedar Waxwing  2    In neighborhood before the walk. Fresh Pond Lane.

House Sparrow  2

American Goldfinch  2

Chipping Sparrow  6

White-crowned Sparrow  1    With White-throated near Willow and Poplar. One participant happened to snap a photo.

White-throated Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  2

Baltimore Oriole  10

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  5

Brown-headed Cowbird  6

Common Grackle  10

Ovenbird  2

Worm-eating Warbler  1    Seen after the walk in the area between Harvard Hill and the Dell. Characteristically slow-moving and hard to spot, but worth the effort!  Occasionally singing.

Black-and-white Warbler  12

Tennessee Warbler  1

Nashville Warbler  5

Cape May Warbler  2

Northern Parula  15

Yellow Warbler  3

Blackpoll Warbler  1    Thanks to Jared, some got to see this bird

Black-throated Blue Warbler  4

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  20

Black-throated Green Warbler  9

Scarlet Tanager  1

Northern Cardinal  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S172660578

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