Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 7, 2025 6:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, led by David Scott. Great morning, sun came out. Only made it as far as the Dell and Harvard Hill.

39 species

Mallard  1

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3

Mourning Dove  1

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

American Herring Gull  2

Common Loon  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  2    Heard only

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  3

Black-capped Chickadee  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  1

Carolina Wren  2

Gray Catbird  4

American Robin  3

American Goldfinch  1

Chipping Sparrow  6

White-throated Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  1

Baltimore Oriole  5    A pair mating on Indian Ridge at the start of the trip

Red-winged Blackbird  2

Common Grackle  3

Ovenbird  2    heard

Black-and-white Warbler  8

Nashville Warbler  1    Harvard Hill, elusive

Common Yellowthroat  1

American Redstart  1

Cape May Warbler  2    Might have been 3

Northern Parula  10

Magnolia Warbler  1

Yellow Warbler  1

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Blackpoll Warbler  4    Saw one in the Dry Dell

Black-throated Blue Warbler  3

Palm Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  25

Black-throated Green Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  1    heard

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S234711742

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