Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
Sep 19, 2026 8:08 AM – 12:50 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.539 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club bird walk co-led by Michael McCarthy & Neil Calabro @ Mt. Auburn Cemetery 9-19-26.
37 species
Wild Turkey 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1
Mourning Dove 15
American Herring Gull 1
Double-crested Cormorant 32
Green Heron 1
Cooper’s Hawk 1 Adult
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis) 3 Adult and two juveniles
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 3
Philadelphia Vireo 1 Willow Pond
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Blue Jay 8
Black-capped Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 28
Gray Catbird 8
Brown Thrasher 1
Veery 1 Thrush perched in dogwood in the Dell, white underneath with black pepper spots on upper chest, rusty above. Seen by three members.
American Robin 39
House Sparrow 7
American Goldfinch 8
Chipping Sparrow 9
Baltimore Oriole 1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 1
Common Grackle (Bronzed) 2
Common Yellowthroat 1
American Redstart 1
Magnolia Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Male
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S395228921
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