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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