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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: jackbreakfast on October 16, 2011, 12:13:37 PM

Title: Northern Mockingbird
Post by: jackbreakfast on October 16, 2011, 12:13:37 PM

Lucky was I to get rather close to this great beauty...
Autumn is here,
Jack Breakfast
(http://www.jackbreakfast.com/birds/mbb1.jpg)
(http://www.jackbreakfast.com/birds/mbb2.jpg)

Title: Re: Northern Mockingbird
Post by: Howieh on October 16, 2011, 12:31:09 PM

Very nice! Was he (she) talkative? I still remember my first close encounter with a northern mockingbird at the Humber Arboretum. I thought I'd struck gold and was actually disappointed when I realized all those different calls were from the same bird! :)

Title: Re: Northern Mockingbird
Post by: jackbreakfast on October 16, 2011, 12:40:55 PM

Extremely talkative, making the pleasure all the greater for y.t., and also nice were the 7 or 8 other mockingbirds nearby, displaying and fluttering about...

Title: Re: Northern Mockingbird
Post by: Rob'in'To on October 16, 2011, 05:40:31 PM

Pretty thing.  We had a Mockingbird around the corner from us on Scarlett Road for about 4 years.  Sadly he did not return this year.

Title: Re: Northern Mockingbird
Post by: newfoundlander61 on October 16, 2011, 08:08:42 PM

Beautiful images. Lighting is awesome.

Title: Re: Northern Mockingbird
Post by: jackbreakfast on October 16, 2011, 11:00:24 PM

Thanks much, Paul.
Ah, birds!

Title: Re: Northern Mockingbird
Post by: Irene on October 18, 2011, 04:46:09 PM

Wow, fabulous closeups!

Title: Re: Northern Mockingbird
Post by: jackbreakfast on October 19, 2011, 09:17:45 AM

Yes, thank you! I felt like the luckiest man I'd ever known. But actually my favorite bird is the white-throated sparrow and all I want to do is get close and closer to him. Which is not the easiest task in the autumn in Toronto...they do like to hide and scurry. In the springtime when they're REALLY yellow, it's a different story...

Title: Re: Northern Mockingbird
Post by: Phiddy on October 22, 2011, 05:20:44 AM

Those are fabulous !!
I love the eye in the second one....really great stuff.

Title: Re: Northern Mockingbird
Post by: jackbreakfast on October 23, 2011, 09:17:40 AM

Ah, thanks Phiddy!
I've been admiring your photographs as well...