northern mockingbird

Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

This was taken in a patch of land where the ranch owners had uprooted a number of small trees. Quite a few birds were searching for tidbits in the soft dirt. This Northern mockingbird had some luck.

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Loads of these around the hotel

"A medium-sized songbird, a bit more slender than a thrush and with a longer tail. Mockingbirds have small heads, a long, thin bill with a hint of a downward curve, and long legs. Their wings are short, rounded, and broad, making the tail seem particularly long in flight."

A wonderful bird to have around unless your sleeping late that morning.

A northern mockingbird was doing the wing-flourish thing on the beach.

No more lifers on the LA portion of my trip, but I did get a few more good shots. I quite like this one of a Northern Mockingbird, for instance

Just a nice close-up of a Northern Mockingbird one morning at our campsite at Goose Island State Park, Texas

A very bedraggled Mockingbird