I've been watching a pair of mockingbirds as they have claimed an abandoned nest in the Japanese honeysuckle vine that covers a section of fence in our backyard.
Last spring, a pair of mockingbirds also nested in the honeysuckle vine, but used a different nest that has been abandoned this year. The nest these mockingbirds have rebuilt was unused last year.
March 23 - before the rebuilding...
April 3
April 4
April 6
April 7
April 8
April 9
"I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs." Thomas Jefferson
The Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) is the state bird of Florida.
