I have been wondering if we might have a nest in the area with hatchlings. The only time I have run into a Mockingbird softly singing other birds' songs was right after the Dakota County pair hatched their brood. He definitely was not singing like that a week ago when I observed him.
Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN sweston2 at comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "linda whyte" <[email protected]> To: <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net>; <mou-net at moumn.org> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:21 PM Subject: [mnbird] airport mockingbird > 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 > _______________________________________________ > mnbird mailing list > mnbird at lists.mnbird.net > http://lists.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird >
