How peaceful...I'm listening to a mockingbird right now outside my bedroom window. It's 12:30 am; and I love to hear this little guy's lullabye in the Spring. Every night he sings a different melody and It always soothes me to sleep. I also love to wake up to the haunting song of the Mourning Dove...
this is the best mocking bird on youTube! thanks for posting.
I had one in my yard this morning imitating our bamboo wind chimes. they are amazing!... I had never heard anything like THAT before and it took a while to locate the bird and realize it was the source. Interestingly, the sounds it made were louder and clearer than the actual chimes.
this is the best mocking bird on youTube! thanks for posting.
I had one in my yard this morning imitating our bamboo wind chimes. they are amazing!... I had never heard anything like THAT before and it took a while to locate the bird and realize it was the source. Interestingly, the sounds it made were louder and clearer than the actual chimes.
this is the best mocking bird on youTube! thanks for posting.
I had one in my yard this morning imitating our bamboo wind chimes. they are amazing!... I had never heard anything like THAT before and it took a while to locate the bird and realize it was the source. Interestingly, the sounds it made were louder and clearer than the actual chimes.
We've always had a mockingbird around our house. In the Spring and Summer we sleep with our windows open and I love going to sleep listening to the serenade. This year we have a new Mockingbird with a very different song repertoire. Many of its songs are raspy, sound, like mechanical ratcheting and buzzing. Not quite as lyrical as we've heard. I wonder what an ornithologist specializing in bird song can tell about an individual bird by listening to all the influences, the mimicked songs?
I strongly agree - mockingbirds do seem to repeat whatever they are exposed to - like a child listening to the radio - they sing the same songs they learn while listening. Interesting comment - thanks!
Be sure to check out the Lyrebird of Australia if you haven't already.
As I look at the Lyrebird and the Mockingbird I see strong similarities in not only the variety of songs and sounds but also their looks - mainly the head and faces are very similar. Search for Attenborough Lyrebird.
They sound like our european Nightingale. But they are not so common anymore, they only visit from May and leave again in early August and they don't live in suburbs either, only in riparian woodlands with willow trees.
Thanks for this. It has helped me identify the guy who sings in my front yard all night. I knew that was no frog! But I couldn't imagine what sort of bird it could be.
I actually find the songs and calls of the Northern Mockingbird to be very therapeutic actually.... there was a time when I had a severe migraine and couldn't even get out of bed for almost the whole day.... but when a Northern Mockingbird perched on the deck's railing just outside my bedroom window to sing it's soft "hew-hew" calls, I felt better almost instantly.
They seem to like the highest place for several yards/meters and they particularly like places only large enough for one mockingbird. I have often wondered if the mockingbird recognizes any acoustical advantage while singing from the top of a slanted windshield. Thanks.
I have a mocking bird currently living in my pine tree, it sounds so nice at night :D
forgottenbeauty2 1 year ago
How peaceful...I'm listening to a mockingbird right now outside my bedroom window. It's 12:30 am; and I love to hear this little guy's lullabye in the Spring. Every night he sings a different melody and It always soothes me to sleep. I also love to wake up to the haunting song of the Mourning Dove...
jazzinnature081 1 year ago
this is the best mocking bird on youTube! thanks for posting.
I had one in my yard this morning imitating our bamboo wind chimes. they are amazing!... I had never heard anything like THAT before and it took a while to locate the bird and realize it was the source. Interestingly, the sounds it made were louder and clearer than the actual chimes.
Mom0zoo 1 year ago
this is the best mocking bird on youTube! thanks for posting.
I had one in my yard this morning imitating our bamboo wind chimes. they are amazing!... I had never heard anything like THAT before and it took a while to locate the bird and realize it was the source. Interestingly, the sounds it made were louder and clearer than the actual chimes.
Mom0zoo 1 year ago
this is the best mocking bird on youTube! thanks for posting.
I had one in my yard this morning imitating our bamboo wind chimes. they are amazing!... I had never heard anything like THAT before and it took a while to locate the bird and realize it was the source. Interestingly, the sounds it made were louder and clearer than the actual chimes.
Mom0zoo 1 year ago
So beautiful, thank you for sharing this.
geisaman 2 years ago
We've always had a mockingbird around our house. In the Spring and Summer we sleep with our windows open and I love going to sleep listening to the serenade. This year we have a new Mockingbird with a very different song repertoire. Many of its songs are raspy, sound, like mechanical ratcheting and buzzing. Not quite as lyrical as we've heard. I wonder what an ornithologist specializing in bird song can tell about an individual bird by listening to all the influences, the mimicked songs?
satweavers 2 years ago
I believe that mockingbirds imitate what they've been exposed to, so in essence they're song is a history and somewhat as individual as each bird.
I currently have one serenading me all day from the peak of my roof and each night from the crab tree next to my window.
raprhowe 2 years ago
I strongly agree - mockingbirds do seem to repeat whatever they are exposed to - like a child listening to the radio - they sing the same songs they learn while listening. Interesting comment - thanks!
NOCNOTCAUGHT 2 years ago
Hi satweavers
Be sure to check out the Lyrebird of Australia if you haven't already.
As I look at the Lyrebird and the Mockingbird I see strong similarities in not only the variety of songs and sounds but also their looks - mainly the head and faces are very similar. Search for Attenborough Lyrebird.
NOCNOTCAUGHT 1 year ago
I bet no other bird has such a repertoire... I love them...!
cubansoy 2 years ago
They sound like our european Nightingale. But they are not so common anymore, they only visit from May and leave again in early August and they don't live in suburbs either, only in riparian woodlands with willow trees.
carljohnson25 3 years ago
Wow - that's really peaceful. ^_^ Aaah...
Saalvatorio 3 years ago
Thanks for this. It has helped me identify the guy who sings in my front yard all night. I knew that was no frog! But I couldn't imagine what sort of bird it could be.
blycox 3 years ago
thank you. this is helping my son with a school project :)
msdragonfly1 3 years ago
Beautiful!
lcastle92407 3 years ago
I actually find the songs and calls of the Northern Mockingbird to be very therapeutic actually.... there was a time when I had a severe migraine and couldn't even get out of bed for almost the whole day.... but when a Northern Mockingbird perched on the deck's railing just outside my bedroom window to sing it's soft "hew-hew" calls, I felt better almost instantly.
rkmugen 4 years ago 5
Me too - they're my favorite.
NOCNOTCAUGHT 4 years ago
I love Mockingbirds!
IlonaG 4 years ago
I like how the bird's stage is the car. Good show.
kritterbite 4 years ago 5
They seem to like the highest place for several yards/meters and they particularly like places only large enough for one mockingbird. I have often wondered if the mockingbird recognizes any acoustical advantage while singing from the top of a slanted windshield. Thanks.
NOCNOTCAUGHT 2 years ago