Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
May 11, 2016 6:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC – Mt. Auburn Cemetery – Leader: David Hursh
78 species

Canada Goose  2
Mallard  4
Wild Turkey  15
Common Loon  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Red-tailed Hawk  3
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Herring Gull  1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Great Horned Owl  1
Chimney Swift  4
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  4
Peregrine Falcon  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Eastern Kingbird  10
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Warbling Vireo  2
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  6
Tufted Titmouse  4
White-breasted Nuthatch  3
House Wren  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Veery  1
Swainson’s Thrush  1
Wood Thrush  1
American Robin  60
Gray Catbird  4
European Starling  4
Cedar Waxwing  30
Ovenbird  3
Blue-winged Warbler  1
Black-and-white Warbler  20     Observed and/or heard on Brookline Bird Club trip by leader and participants
Orange-crowned Warbler  1     Observed on Brookline Bird Club trip by leader and participants
Nashville Warbler  5
Common Yellowthroat  3
American Redstart  6
Cape May Warbler  5     Observed on Brookline Bird Club trip by leader and participants
Northern Parula  12
Magnolia Warbler  5
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  4
Chestnut-sided Warbler  3
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler  8
Palm Warbler  2
Pine Warbler  3
Yellow-rumped Warbler  45
Prairie Warbler  2
Black-throated Green Warbler  5
Grasshopper Sparrow  1     Observed on Brookline Bird Club trip by leader and participants
Chipping Sparrow  22
White-throated Sparrow  22
Savannah Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  1
Lincoln’s Sparrow  1
Swamp Sparrow  3
Scarlet Tanager  1
Northern Cardinal  8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  20
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
Orchard Oriole  1
Baltimore Oriole  8
House Finch  8
American Goldfinch  10
House Sparrow  18

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S29871106

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th [...]

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th [...]

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th [...]

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