Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 9, 2026 9:00 AM – 11:58 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.173 mile(s)

30 species (+1 other taxa)

Mallard  3

Mourning Dove  2

Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1    Long-awaited Lifer! Unfazed at angry robins, a truly dramatic encounter given the context/stakes :O

Ring-billed Gull  1

American Herring Gull  1

Great Blue Heron  1

Great Horned Owl  3

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2    Heard on a couple occasions

Downy Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1    Heard

Blue Jay  4

American Crow  5

Black-capped Chickadee  5

Tufted Titmouse  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  4

Northern House Wren  1

Gray Catbird  6

American Robin  20    At least three nests observed but most notably, an agitated pair fending off a yellow-billed cuckoo

American Goldfinch  9

Chipping Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  2

Baltimore Oriole  8

Red-winged Blackbird  10

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Common Grackle  7

Black-throated Green Warbler  1

new world warbler sp.  1

Scarlet Tanager  1    Lifer! Nemesis bird found! Bird of the Day!

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S337295483

Nuttall Club special event with Peter Kaestner

Peter Kaestner in his Search for 10,000 Species of Birds in the World - A Special Event Sponsored by the Nuttall Ornithological Club Peter Kaestner after seeing his 10,000th world bird species in the Philippines.

Nuttall Club special event with Peter Kaestner

Peter Kaestner in his Search for 10,000 Species of Birds in the World - A Special Event Sponsored by the Nuttall Ornithological Club Peter Kaestner after seeing his 10,000th world bird species in the Philippines.

Nuttall Club special event with Peter Kaestner

Peter Kaestner in his Search for 10,000 Species of Birds in the World - A Special Event Sponsored by the Nuttall Ornithological Club Peter Kaestner after seeing his 10,000th world bird species in the Philippines.

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