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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 1977

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ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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