There was a mockingbird in my yard today!

[conuly]

I do like mockingbirds, I like how they flash white when they fly.

I'd even like their singing if they weren't all so overly enamored with car alarms. I just don't get the appeal. You're a brilliantly smart bird, you can memorize dozens and scores and even hundreds of songs, and you've decided to rattle off your entire repertoire of car alarms every night? Apparently so!

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Comments

[chanter1944]

I've never actually encountered a mockingbird in my home region. I'm not sure we get them over here. The only one I've ever been close enough to identify was the tropical variety, down in Puerto Morelos, Yucatan, México this past month. So so so cool!

[conuly]

Mockingbirds have been steadily heading northwards for the past 100-odd years. I've found a few different range maps for them, the most generous of which shows that they're all over the contiguous US. However, other maps suggest that while they go that far north in the east they still are not that far north further west. *shrugs* Best guess? They're occasionally seen in your area, but not commonly.