Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

Sep 6, 2026 8:02 AM – 11:12 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.23 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Mt. Auburn Walk Co-Led by Michael McCarthy & Neil Calabro

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Broken clouds

Temperature: 60 – 65°F

Wind: Mostly calm – gentle breeze

Wind Direction: NW – N

Cloud Cover: 63 – 84%

Humidity: 72 – 93%

Dew point: 56 – 58°F

Sunrise: 6:15am

Sunset: 7:11pm

Weather generated by <a href=”https://raincrow.app/”>RainCrow</a>

46 species (+1 other taxa)

Wild Turkey  1

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2

Mourning Dove  14

Common Nighthawk  1

Eastern Whip-poor-will  1    Calling several times from the ground along the slope paths between the Washington Tower and the Dell.

Chimney Swift  1

American Herring Gull  9    Soaring in a kettle

Green Heron  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Osprey (American)  2

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Bald Eagle  1    Adult

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  3    Adult and two juveniles

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  8

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Empidonax sp.  1

Eastern Phoebe  2

Eastern Warbling Vireo  1

Red-eyed Vireo  3

Blue Jay  6

American Crow  1

Common Raven  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  25

Gray Catbird  7

American Robin  148

House Sparrow  5

House Finch  6

American Goldfinch  4

Chipping Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  1

Baltimore Oriole  1    Male

Ovenbird  1

Blue-winged Warbler  1

Black-and-white Warbler  3

Common Yellowthroat  4

American Redstart  6

Magnolia Warbler  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  2    Together in a paper birch

Chestnut-sided Warbler  2    Seen in the elms from the Washington Tower

Wilson’s Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  3

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S391041282