I have a mockingbird outside my bedroom window who awakens around midnight to give a poor imitation of a Carolina Wren.  Of course given my inexperience, it could be a wren, too.  But then I've seen the mocker and haven't seen a wren in that tree for the past year.

maryanne dolan


  Tom Marko wrote: 
  Last  March, while visiting my parents in Florida, I was awakened each night
  by a mockingbird who decided 0300 was an appropriate time to serenade the
  neighborhood with his(?) repertoire of songs.  Was this nocturnal behavior
  unusual?