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

Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
May 9, 2018 5:58 AM – 8:58 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Brookline Bird Club walk led by Neil Hayward. 
46 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  2
Mallard  1
Wild Turkey  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
gull sp.  2
Mourning Dove  6
Chimney Swift  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
Peregrine Falcon  1     On Tufts Medical building in Watertown.
Blue-headed Vireo  3
Warbling Vireo  3
Blue Jay  8
American Crow  3
Common Raven  2     Eating eggs from American Robin nest :(
Tree Swallow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  6
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
American Robin  18
Gray Catbird  1
Ovenbird  1     Thistle Ave. Silent.
Black-and-white Warbler  5
Nashville Warbler  5
American Redstart  2     Male and female at Willow Pond.
Cape May Warbler  1     Brief views near Harvard Hill.
Northern Parula  25
Magnolia Warbler  3
Blackburnian Warbler  2     Harvard Hill, Dell (same bird?) and near Cedar. Males. Silent.
Blackpoll Warbler  1     North end of Auburn Lake. Singing.
Black-throated Blue Warbler  3
Palm Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  25
Black-throated Green Warbler  3
Chipping Sparrow  8
Song Sparrow  1
Scarlet Tanager  1     Male. Near dell / Cedar. Singing and showing off!
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  1     Male. Harvard Hill.
Baltimore Oriole  8
Red-winged Blackbird  6
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
Common Grackle  15
American Goldfinch  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45939238

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