At 04:31 PM 4/18/2007, you wrote:
><< Mockers even mimic non-avian sounds, like cell phone rings, back-up
>horns,
>etc. >>
>
>Several years ago one of our local mockingbirds used to do a decent
>rendition of a neighbor's car alarm, the sort that goes through a
>repertoire of about 8 different up/ down, & siren sweeps. A very
>entertaining bird.
>
>Scott Fraser
>
My neighbor told me last night she was sitting in her office last week and=
heard "a terrible screeching noise" and looking out the window she saw a
hawk on the lawn, pinning down the source of the screaming: her favorite
mockingbird. A car promptly distracted the hawk, which flew away with the
still-kicking mockingbird. I asked her why it was her favorite? She said
for the last two years it would repeatedly sit in a tree outside her
window, loudly singing: "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty . . . " Now I do not
know what the hawk's name was . . .
-- best regards, Marty Michener
MIST Software Assoc. Inc., P. O. Box 269, Hollis, NH 03049
http://www.enjoybirds.com/
"This flower (Brook Lobelia) was named for Peter Kalm, a naturalist sent in
1749 by the Swedish Royal Academy to study North American biota. Kalm was
amazed at the diversity of nature and disgusted at how the English colonist=
s
were trampling it all, conducting life in a manner of looting which has
ironically
more recently become known as conservative". - Botany Everywhere, p. 965
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