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Mount Auburn in Cambridge is a birding hot spot

By Stephen Jermanok

 |  Globe correspondent  

  March 18, 2012

By the time my wife and I arrive at the Mount Auburn Cemetery at 6:30 a.m., the parking lot around the fountain is already full and minivans with birders from across New England are streaming in. We find a spot and stroll over to where we find our guide for the morning, Carol Decker, director of Mass Audubon’s Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary. As if on cue, a red-tailed hawk flies overhead, while to our left, a vibrant Baltimore oriole sits on a branch, twig in beak.

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