#92230
March 17th, 2007 at 01:31 AM
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I have noticed over the past two weeks, two mockbirds (at least I think it's two birds) building a nest in my big cedar tree next to my porch!!! I have been outside the past week working in my flowerbeds and I have really enjoyed hearing them!!
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#92231
March 17th, 2007 at 01:58 AM
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Lucky you ! I love mockingbirds-I get a free concert every night !
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#92232
March 17th, 2007 at 03:38 AM
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I have two mockingbirds also. They have lived in my yard for about four years now.
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#92233
March 17th, 2007 at 12:12 PM
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#92234
March 17th, 2007 at 02:11 PM
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They are too funny, yesterday I was in the flower bed right behind the tree and one flew down very close to me and just looked at me "like, Hey what are you doing?"!!
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#92235
March 17th, 2007 at 03:09 PM
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Ahh, he was looking for a snack maybe? Try putting out some apple slices, grapes, orange slices, or a bowl of grape jelly near where you see them, on a flat surface like an old table top or wooden platform and see what happens. Mockingbirds are omnivorous. They eat anything and everything but Especially love fruit and suet.
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#92236
March 18th, 2007 at 12:11 AM
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I will have to do that, I have to put some kind of small table near there, I could put it on my front porch, do you think they would go there? I also hung my hummingbird feeders up today!!
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#92237
March 18th, 2007 at 12:44 AM
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Good for you! The Hummingbirds are here and are moving north at the rate of about 10 miles a day. Try putting the table on your front porch where they can see it and put a bunch of apple slices on it. That should bring the Mockers a'runnin'.
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#92238
March 18th, 2007 at 04:20 AM
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Oh, I love the Mockingbirds 
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#92239
March 18th, 2007 at 10:11 AM
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I love to feed as many kinds of birds as I can but have never been able to feed the mockingbirds. Every time I put out fruit for all the fruit-loving birds, the fireants find it  Has anyone figured out a way to outsmart the pesky little devils? I just hate fireants.
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#92240
March 18th, 2007 at 07:02 PM
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#92241
March 18th, 2007 at 07:12 PM
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