[mou] [mnbird] airport mockingbird

[Steve Weston]

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" <birds at moosewoods.us>
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
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