A Sight to See

This past Saturday I headed out to grab some Indian food to go from my favorite place, Indigo.  As I was backing out of my parking space and moving to the exit, I saw a yard long ribbon fluttering across the drive.  Then I saw the Mockingbird fluttering into the tree by the exit that was holding on to this Ribbon.  It's not something you see every day in the city. So somewhere I’m sure there is a yard long white ribbon woven nicely into a momma Mockingbird's nest.

You know, come to think of it, my whole weekend was centered around Mockingbirds (I'm sure it has nothing to do with having several living in the trees where I work.)  Yesterday (Sunday) when I got off for work I saw a black bird being hounded by two Mockingbirds. Then when  I opened my car door and tossed in my purse I saw a grey little bird chirping and then hop under my car.  It was a baby Mockingbird of course, and momma wasn't too far away chirping back from a sign post.  Making sure the baby was well away from my car, I waited before leaving to watch it. As it was learning to fly by jumping off a curb, Trying to get back to its momma. I can only guess that's why the blackbirds where being hounded.  Babies and eggs were abound and they were protecting them.

Sadly I got absolutely nothing for pictures of all this.  So instead I'll leave the picture I took at a friends several years ago of a baby Mockingbird that was hiding in her cedar tree.