Mockingbird

[RgrF]

gabester wrote:
For some reason I was hoping this was going to give me some insight into how to get the stupid nightingale perched too close to my window and a streetlight to shut the hell up.
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BeeBee guns work.

[OWC Jamie]

I wished I had had a good lens to capture a mockingbird last year doing it's mating dance. Showing off for the ladies. Amazing performance. They can fly straight up vertical with thier wings fully outstretched, like a kite, making themselves look extremely large.

[Gutenberg]

gabester, whatever is bothering you I doubt it's a nightingale, unless one took a wrong turn during the migration—they're common in Europe but not here. You probably have a house sparrow chattering away--they're very noisy.

[Fred_Also]

gabester wrote:
I'm pretty sure I've heard a mockingbird reproducing,

I read just that part and thought - WOW I don't think I've ever heard that.

The one that is driving me crazy right now is the Doves. They have been cooing 24 hours a day for the past week.

Fred Also

[Dennis S]

When I was about 13, I had a bird call "record" I cut off the back of a box of cereal. (Remember those?) I gave it to my next-door neighbor and she played it out of her window the rest of the afternoon.

About 3 AM, I heard the record playing. I wondered why she was playing it in the middle of the night. I went to her window to tell her to knock it off and heard a mockingbird singing from the big oak tree in her back yard.