Mockingbird | 02:00PM Apr 18, 2008
While I appreciate birds, there are times I would prefer this particular song bird eating rather than singing. It merits its name due to 'mocking' the songs of other birds and will run through a chorus of clatter well before dawn.
In spite of borrowing jingles from other birds, a mockingbird is also very territorial - even with humans. I recall with a chuckle one mockingbird having a nest between two buildings and anyone walking between them would get dive bombed until they left the territory of the mockingbird.
'Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.'
- Miss Maudie Atkinson in "To Kill a Mockingbird"
- Canon
- Canon EOS 40D
- F5.6
- 1/400 sec
- 200.0 mm
- 400
- 0
- Normal program
- Flash did not fire, auto
- Multi-segment