Mockingbird
By Bathgate
2 Nov, 2017
3 likes
Plucking juniper berries. He's been living in my garden for a couple years already.
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They're nice to have around. They eat lots of nasty bugs.
3 Nov, 2017
Great! Do they imitate other birds’ songs like our ‘Blackbirds’ do?
3 Nov, 2017
Yes they do. They even imitate my power tools. Real characters!
3 Nov, 2017
Brilliant! :) i’d love to hear one. I shall google...
3 Nov, 2017
What a beauty and beautiful photo. I have never seen one
except in my mind. And a book...how lucky to have him
around all the time. I know we have owls that live around us but have yet to get a photo...The moon is fantastic though.
3 Nov, 2017
Lol these birds like to sing through the night during full moon
3 Nov, 2017
That's cool. I will listen tonight!
3 Nov, 2017
They are quite loud and shrill arent they...but what a repertoire and what stamina!
3 Nov, 2017
Oh yes, they can be. Most of the time they are very quiet - when they found a mate, when they are nesting, raising the babies, hunting for prey. They can be territorial. They won't let other birds near my juniper trees.
4 Nov, 2017
Now you say Juniper trees, their habitat? It is so cold here, and windy the birds are freezing.
10 Nov, 2017
Oh yes a pair has a nest in my Juniper Trees. They sent off a couple chicks in the Spring. Now they are back tidying up the old nest.
10 Nov, 2017
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He is really lovely. I’d love to have him in my garden! :)
3 Nov, 2017