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[TuxedoKat]

59. Hey

I didn't have time to answer your post yesterday but I was wondering something similar about how to attract Mockingbirds to your yard. If you wanted to discourage them, you could take away things that attract them. I was reading the link below and read that among many things they like are Pyrocantha trees. My mom has one in her front yard right next to the house that Mockingbirds nested in one year. I will have to check and see if they grow up north here. This AM I heard alot of activity from some Pileated Woodpeckers (they make a sound like (cuk-cuk-cuk-cuk-cuk-cuk). I heard them and looked outside and there was a huge one on a branch outside my window. They are relatively shy birds but my neighbor has a huge suet feeder and they visit it quite often. I need to get one of those. Hummingbirds are fun and easy to feed. They aren't that shy of humans but won't attack you.

http://www.birdsforever.com/mock.html

Funny story, I was talking to friends of mine in MD yesterday and we got on the subject of Mockingbirds somehow and one of them told me how he heard a Mockingbird that ran the gamut of mimicking eight car alarm sounds in succession! I would love to hear that.