Hi All-----

If the singer were a mockingbird, wouldn't one expect the bobwhite call 
to be interspersed into a medley of other songs?   If I heard a 
continuing series of bobwhite calls that were not part of a medley, I 
would assume it was a bobwhite calling.

We are still waiting for a mockingbird to find the vacant territory of 
our neighborhood.  Our previous residents disappeared with the winter 
and we have been mockingbird-less all season.  Hopefully, post-breeding 
dispersal will provide us a new songster;  the mockingbird medleys have 
been greatly missed.

Meanwhile, we are flush with offspring of Downy Woodpeckers, Chickadees, 
Nuthatches, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Tufted Titmice, Gray Catbirds & 
Robins.  Preying mantises are everyday occurrences, we have a yard 
Northern Brown Snake and, for the first time ever, we have a few Odonata 
(Ebony Jewelwing &  m/f Common Whitetail) visiting our smallish backyard.

Georgia McDonald              Towson, Balt Co

On 7/5/2011 1:49 PM, Nancy Magnusson wrote:
> Hi, Michel -
>
> I can't answer for sure, but the mockingbirds and starlings at Schooley Mill Park (HoCo) stopped doing bobwhite imitations after the bobwhites disappeared from the area.
>
> Nancy Magnusson
> Ellicott City, MD

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