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

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

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