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Song and Dance

Pacific Commons Linear Park

Fremont, California

 

This is a sequence of poses from a Northern Mockingbird's "flight display." The bird was at the top of a tree and singing loudly. It flew straight up and parachuted back to the same spot many times. I often see Mockingbirds practicing the same display on telephone poles in my neighborhood. They're noisy but fun to watch.

 

Someone recently asked me about another Mockingbird photo that I posted several years ago. When I looked for it, I found several other shots of the same bird. I made the composite from three of them.

 

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Uploaded on October 18, 2022
Taken on June 20, 2018