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Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
May 7, 2017 6:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC – Mt. Auburn – Leader: Jason Forbes
Group size and estimate. Indian Ridge, Halcyon, Harvard Hill, Willow. Bit windy but nice, could have used a few more warblers and the cuckoos seen by others.
51 species

Canada Goose  2
Mallard (Northern)  2
Common Loon  1     Leader only?
Double-crested Cormorant  10
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1
Herring Gull (American)  2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  2
Chimney Swift  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Least Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Eastern Kingbird  2
Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  3
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  2
Barn Swallow (American)  1
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  2
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2
American Robin  10
Gray Catbird  4
European Starling  5
Cedar Waxwing  20     Counted 12 then watched 20+ fly out near Robin Ave
Ovenbird  1
Black-and-white Warbler  7
Northern Parula  3
Palm Warbler  1     Group only
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  40
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Wilson’s Warbler  1
Chipping Sparrow  20
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  2
Scarlet Tanager  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  5
Common Grackle (Bronzed)  15
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Orchard Oriole  2
Baltimore Oriole  10
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  15

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36667817

Fresh Pond, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
May 7, 2017 9:35 AM – 12:05 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC – extension from Mt. Auburn – Leader: Jason Forbes
Chasing the Prothonotary.
30 species

Canada Goose  2
Mallard (Northern)  1
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Green Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Bald Eagle  1
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1
Herring Gull (American)  60     Rough count of birds bathing middle of the pond
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Mourning Dove  1
Chimney Swift  2
Eastern Kingbird  2
Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  2
Tree Swallow  6
Black-capped Chickadee  1
House Wren  1
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  2
Prothonotary Warbler  1     Continuing from earlier this morning.
American Redstart  2
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  3
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  6
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  3
Common Grackle (Bronzed)  5
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Orchard Oriole  2
Baltimore Oriole  4
American Goldfinch  3

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36667818

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Bring Back Bobolinks! This year the BBC is introducing new Endangered Species Program. Each year we plan to focus on a single bird species facing serious threats in Massachusetts and elsewhere. With this effort we

Bring Back Bobolinks!

Bring Back Bobolinks! This year the BBC is introducing new Endangered Species Program. Each year we plan to focus on a single bird species facing serious threats in Massachusetts and elsewhere. With this effort we

Bring Back Bobolinks!

Bring Back Bobolinks! This year the BBC is introducing new Endangered Species Program. Each year we plan to focus on a single bird species facing serious threats in Massachusetts and elsewhere. With this effort we

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