Mocking birds

I've decided that a mockingbird will be my next tattoo.

"Hear the mocking bird sing in the middle of the night. All of his songs are stolen so he hides; stole them out from whippoorwills, screaming car alarms. He sings them for you special, he knows you're afraid of the dark."

I love watching birds, sometimes loses track of time! I wanted to share the birds that visit my backyard on permanent daily basis and those who visit during their migration as well! The most visite…

Realistic brown Northern Mockingbird bird flying with wings up

Mockingbird

It is where the great magnolia shoots up its majestic trunk, crowned with evergreen leaves, and decorated with a thousand beautiful flowers, that perfume the air around; where the forests and fields...

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If you’ve been hearing an endless string of 10 or 15 different birds singing outside your house, you might have a Northern Mockingbird in your yard. These slender-bodied gray birds apparently pour all their color into their personalities. They sing almost endlessly, even sometimes at night, and they flagrantly harass birds that intrude on their territories, flying slowly around them or prancing toward them, legs extended, flaunting their bright white wing patches.