Mockingbird

[The UnDoug]

It’ll likely take several minutes to load, but here’s a link to a video I shot of a mockingbird perched on a neighbor’s TV antenna. You’ll may need to turn the sound up considerably so you can hear the bird’s repertoire. Sorry for the background noise.

http://dougdavis.net/web_images/Mockinbird.mov

[gabester]

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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[steve...]

Where did you shoot that video? I've never observed a Mockingbird singing. I don't think we have them in northern CA. Is it unusual to hear those sounds in an urban environment?

[vision63]

They have them in NorCal. What else is singing robustly at 3am here in Oakland?

[Black]

vision63 wrote:
What else is singing robustly at 3am here in Oakland?

[M>B>]

I live in northern California, the low foothills above the central valley and the first one of the season arrived this past week. I love them and they often sing all night long.

Amazing how they "copy" mock other bird sounds!

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/North...ird/sounds

[DaviDC.]

There are zillions of 'em in central Alabama.
Sure, they make pretty sounds, but they are mean birds & will attack anything that ventures within their nesting zone.

[mjgkramer]

They also make a noise that sounds like a telephone ringing. They are the Texas state bird and we have a lot of them around our house here in New Braunfels.

[gabester]

I'm pretty sure I've heard a mockingbird reproducing, of all things in extreme annoyance, a car alarm going off. You know the kind - it has about 3 different sound patterns that it alternates between, as it repeatedly goes off!
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[The UnDoug]

I live in Philadelphia. I've heard them near my house on several occasions, and first heard one a couple years ago behind the art museum which is just a couple blocks away. I thought it was so cool, I got out my Treo (cell phone/pda) and recorded it's singing.

For the record, I am fairly certain this is the "Northern Mockingbird":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Mockingbird

http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=northern+mockingbird&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=rP3uScraN5vflQfTo8gz&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title