The airport mockingbird was still hanging out at the SW corner of the
airport fields this afternoon, at 2:30. He was in the row of small
evergreens diagonally across from the big stone sign. I parked in
front of the barricade across the dirt drive that's marked with a
"dead end" sign, and listened for the repertoire, with 3 or more
repetitions of various birds' songs. Though not especially loud, the
bird was easy to locate. It was on the back side of the nearest spruce
10 feet away, about 5 feet up, in plain sight. After a short pause, it
flew down into the adjacent parking lot to the south, then up to the
west, into the cluster of deciduous trees lining the dirt drive.
Linda Whyte
