Attracting Mockingbirds

[Curmudgeoness]

18. My father was raised in the McKeesport area.

You were not all that far from where I am.....well, a couple of hours, I guess. I am just east of Youngstown OH, which is the closest city around...I am right on the PA/OH border.

I have no room for trees, but would love to have a serviceberry for the birds. When my aunt passed away, they were putting in a memorial garden at a park, and I donated a tree----I requested a serviceberry. But I can't complain about having no room for more trees, since I have five mature oaks on a small city lot, and they provide millions of acorns! And lots of birds like them, as well as all the squirrels.

You make me laugh about knowing cardinals, and not all the other birds. I was raised with my mom knowing a lot of birds, so I learned them....and there is a bird book beside the window for those special birds we didn't know. Don't ask how long it took my mom and I (before she passed away) to figure out a female grosbeak when we didn't have a male.