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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

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ANNUAL REPORT 1981

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ANNUAL REPORT 1980

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ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

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ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

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