A couple years ago I had two mocking birds that sang the "wolf whistle", something I use to hear from guys when I was a teenager. 
I also for the past two years have bluebirds that come in when I sing Jesus Loves Me. It's their cue that I'm putting out the mealworms and they get them before the bluejays see them. 
On 5/15 I spent most of the day in my backyard and between sight/hearing I had 37 species the highest number in 21 years. First ever was two chimney swifts also five or six calls I had no idea what they were. 
I love May. 

Patricia Viola Rose
240-256-5423 cell


On May 18, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Gail Frantz <> wrote:

> Several years ago a 4th grade student at the school where I taught, told me 
> there was a quail in the bushes outside one of the school's entrances. 
> Sure  enough, there it was. 
> A ranger wasn't surprised at the story. She told me  that Bobwhites were 
> getting along quite nicely in the Randallstown  area & were frequently sighted.
> 
> Gail Frantz
> Old Hanover Rd
> Reisterstown
> 
> 
> In a message dated 5/17/2012 11:28:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
>  writes:
> 
> About 25  years ago, near the corner of Massachusetts Ave. and 6th St., NE, 
> on Capitol  Hill, Washington DC, I heard a calling "bob WHITE" on a fairly 
> continual  basis.  
> 
> At night.
> 
> A mocker for sure.  But how and  where did he pick up the quail call????
> 
> 
> On May 17, 2012, at 11:24  AM, Janet Millenson wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to append a question to Leo's:  How long does a particular 
> imitation stay in the mockingbird's repertoire? In  other words, if (as in Leo's 
> example of the towhee) the mocker doesn't  regularly hear a particular 
> birdsong or other sound, will that imitation fade  from its repertoire in a year 
> or two? Or does the mockingbird keep adding new  tunes without dropping the 
> old ones?
>> 
>> 
>> On 5/17/2012  10:34 AM, Leo Weigant wrote:
>>>   Nancy, I share your . .  . frustration.
>>> 
>>>   Which prompts me to  report that this spring I seem to
>>>   have a virtuoso  mocker in my neighborhood who will
>>>   sit in a bush and  and run through a repertoire of nearly
>>>   a dozen  species one after another, including towhees
>>>   (not a  neighborhood bird).
>>>   Only other tieme I heard such a  concert was once, years
>>>   ago, in Texas when Mark  Garland ID'd 14 species calls
>>>   from a mocker atop the  motel where we stopped on an old
>>>   ANS "Foray"  trip.
>>> 
>>>   I suppose I should know, but  don't  ~  do they do this sort of
>>>   showing  off just during spring mating season?
>>> 
>>>    Leo Weigant
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 17,  2012, at 9:38 AM, Nancy Magnusson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ...  against mockingbirds doing thrashers.
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> -Janet Millenson
>> Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)
>> 
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