through my window...

This Guy was singing up the proverbial storm outside today. Love was in the air I guess. Nice ambiance to the day.

Captured this photograph at the local retention pond in a strip mall near my house. Usually only see Red-Winged Blackbirds. Was lucky this day.

Mockingbird on a Pine Branch

Two Mockingbirds were chasing after one another this morning.(it's Springtime, at last!)

Mimus polyglottus.

This Mockingbird poses after his victory in driving off a much larger Boat-tailed Grackle from his territory.

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Northern Mockingbird on the woodpile enjoying some snacks!

Northern Mockingbird

Immature Mockingbird, probably hasn't been long since it fledged. Note the brown spots still on it's breast.

Mockingbird picking out that 'just right' berry.

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I find these birds to not imitate the other birds with their songs nearly as much in the autumn as in the spring.

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Northern Mockingbirds continue to add new sounds to their repertoires throughout their lives. A male may learn around 200 songs throughout its life.

Dominican Republic.

Coyote Hills Regional Park

Fremont, CA

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Coyote Hills Regional Park

Fremont, CA

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Wildhorse agricultural buffer, Davis, Ca. Feb. 2020.

Québec

(photo Claire)

Mockingbird sitting in front of a shedding palm tree that matches its coloration, on a cloudy day. THe only touch of color is a bit of red around the beak, I think the bird had been eating berries.

Huntington Gardens, Pasadena. Jan. 2022.

Northern Mockingbird - Morgan County, Alabama - 2022

A mockingbird eating a berry.

This is one of two Northern Mockingbirds that visit my backyard throughout the day. All Mockingbirds that visit my yard are called Dunbar, after the character John Dunbar from the Kevin Costner Movie, Dances with Wolves. Years ago, after I finished watching that movie, Dunbar showed up at the window and that's how he/she became Dunbar. This one dances with hawks, not wolves but it's still a little dangerous.

Dunbar is not afraid to dive bomb Elvis, the red-shouldered hawk when Elvis visits. In this image, Dunbar is simply guarding a feeding station. Note, he is on the same cedar snag from yesterday's image where Robbie is sitting as he longingly looks at that same feeding station.

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I think he may have spotted me.

This fellow just sings his poor heart out (starting around midnight) each day, looking for a mate. I love trying to ID all the different birdsong and other noises he makes (a car alarm, for example).

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Mimus polyglottos

This Northern mockingbird was seen flying over blackberry bushes at Las Gallinas Valley birding loop in San Rafael, California.

Northern Mockingbird at the park.

Northern Mockingbird enjoying lunch on the woodpile!

Okay, okay it's another mockingbird, but there is much to admire...

Enjoying some of the last of our holly berries. Glendale, Missouri

through my window...

This Northern Mockingbird, a first for me in pictures, perched amid a thicket of branches in this Common Buckthorn in the meadow area of German Mills Settlers Park and ate some of the berries, probably one of the few sources of food available here this early in spring. When it flew off to another buckthorn tree I noticed the white flashes on the wings which gave me a clue to its ID.

Incidentally, this tree is considered a noxious weed in some minds.