Mockingbirds and all that jazz.

This mockingbird on the birdbath in our front yard has been visiting our suet cake all winter and really being pretty quiet. Now that spring is in the air he sings all the time. We hear him first thing in the morning with the dawn chorus and a lot during the day. Mockingbirds imitate songs of other birds and other noises they like. The male with the most songs wins the female of his choice, or so they say. In the spring they are staking out their territory for where they will nest and raise their baby birds. We'll be watching for a nest and those new mockers.