Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
May 8, 2016 6:00 AM – 10:10 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments: BBC – Mt. Auburn Cemetery – Leader: Jason Forbes – Mostly cloudy but with periods of sun.
47 species (+2 other taxa)
Mallard (Northern) 2
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis) 2
Ring-billed Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 leader only
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 4
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Blue-headed Vireo 4 minimum
Warbling Vireo (Eastern) 2
Blue Jay 4
crow sp. 1 mobbed by a Red-wing, looked raven-sized but crow-shaped
Tree Swallow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 4
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 1
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea) 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Veery 2 Indian Ridge and back of Halcyon
American Robin 30
Gray Catbird 3
Ovenbird 2
Northern Waterthrush 2
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler (Northern) 1
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 20
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Setophaga sp. 1 in the big beech at Halcyon, heard only, opinions varied from Prairie to Blackburnian
Chipping Sparrow 10
White-throated Sparrow 10
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 10
Common Grackle (Bronzed) 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 4
House Finch 3
House Sparrow 10
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