Mount Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
Jan 19, 2025 7:44 AM – 10:34 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.276 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club- Mt. Auburn Cemetery- Leader: Kathy Dia- 32-42F and quite icy.
23 species
Canada Goose 33
Wild Turkey 2
Mourning Dove 7
Ring-billed Gull 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk 3 One adult near the front gate. Two imm at Willow Pond.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Male heard them seen between Indian Ridge and the dry dell.
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 6
Blue Jay 12
Black-capped Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 7
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 12
European Starling 24
Northern Mockingbird 2
American Robin 15
House Sparrow 10
House Finch 3
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 6
White-throated Sparrow 5
Song Sparrow 7
Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Continuing at the suet feeder at Lake Halcyon.
Northern Cardinal 10
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S216344525
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The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 283 species for 2024, with 274 species in Massachusetts (four more than 2023), and nine additional species reported from New Hampshire and Maine. This total was based upon 262 [...]
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Please join us on April 25 for our Annual Members Meeting. The evening begins with a social hour at 6:30. The program starts at 7:30 with the BBC's annual business meeting and the election of [...]
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On May 1 from 7:00 to 8:30 P. M. Bill Gette will offer a presentation on Wood Warblers. These Gems of the Forest are one of the most exciting groups of birds. Living in New [...]
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The BBC Conservation and Education Committee is pleased to announce our two annual Bill Drummond Young Birder Scholarship recipients, Sydney Beard of Cambridge and Jonas Johnson of Canaan, CT. These scholarships cover the full cost [...]
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Mt Auburn Cemetery has announced changes to birder access starting this spring. In short the gates will open every day starting at 6:00 AM but the key program has been discontinued. Here is a portion [...]
US Fish & Wildlife Service Major Staff Cuts
According to the National Wildlife Refuge Association, “The intentional dismantling of science and conservation is happening now. Hundreds of dedicated U. S. Fish and Wildlife Services employees—many of them biologists—have been fired, gutting an [...]
2024 Annual Report
The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 283 species for 2024, with 274 species in Massachusetts (four more than 2023), and nine additional species reported from New Hampshire and Maine. This total was based upon 262 [...]
April 25 Annual Members Meeting – All Welcome
Please join us on April 25 for our Annual Members Meeting. The evening begins with a social hour at 6:30. The program starts at 7:30 with the BBC's annual business meeting and the election of [...]
May 1 Members Only Webinar: Wood Warblers with Bill Gette
On May 1 from 7:00 to 8:30 P. M. Bill Gette will offer a presentation on Wood Warblers. These Gems of the Forest are one of the most exciting groups of birds. Living in New [...]
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The BBC Conservation and Education Committee is pleased to announce our two annual Bill Drummond Young Birder Scholarship recipients, Sydney Beard of Cambridge and Jonas Johnson of Canaan, CT. These scholarships cover the full cost [...]
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Mt Auburn Cemetery has announced changes to birder access starting this spring. In short the gates will open every day starting at 6:00 AM but the key program has been discontinued. Here is a portion [...]
US Fish & Wildlife Service Major Staff Cuts
According to the National Wildlife Refuge Association, “The intentional dismantling of science and conservation is happening now. Hundreds of dedicated U. S. Fish and Wildlife Services employees—many of them biologists—have been fired, gutting an [...]
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