Mockingbirds in Richmond Hill

[Anonymous]

For those of you that live up in my neck of the woods and would like to see or have never seen a Northern Mockingbird they are now highly visible along Hopkins St. in Richmond Hill from the Library area to the back of the York Regional Police building.

 Some times they or one of them will come within feet of you as they or it checks you out.

 Hopkins St. is 1 short block south of Major MacKenzie Drive W and runs from Yonge St. to Arnold Cr. (where the Police Station is).

Good luck if you go to see them.

[Anonymous]

Good day Eh!

 Walked along Hopkins St. again this morning and behind the York Regional Police Station I stopped and did a very short pish and right away a Mockingbird flew across the road and landed only 5 feet above me and looked me over. I said hello to it and started to walk away and the next thing I knew I had a Mockingbird in my face. The bird dove on me and made contact with my back (actually only my shirt) during this unprovoked attack more than 10 times. Not a frightening encounter as the bird can do no damage but I did see a motorcycle policeman coming out of the station parking garage and I reported the attack to him (he also was a witness) and he said it just liked me, laughed and drove off as I was being driven to my knees  :lol: . Just kidding, the bird followed me for about 50 feet diving constantly as I laughed at it. If I take it to court that cop better show up as a witness for me  :lol:

 I walked on along Hopkins St. towards Yonge St. after this near death encounter and behind the Library was another Mockingbird singing it's heart out from the top of a light standard. I kept my pish to myself this time.

 A bonus was a sighting of a juvenile Bald Eagle flying east over Yonge St. at Levendale Rd in Richmond Hill at 9:45am. This bird was no more than 150 feet overhead and became only my second Bald Eagle in Richmond Hill since 1973.

[Pat Hodgson]

I saw a mockingbird today in an area I haven't before - East York.  Specifically, it flew across Redway Road, from the Loblaws lot and over the fence to the CPR tracks.  Redway Road runs west from Millwood Road, just south of its intersection with Laird Drive.

[Leslie Kinrys]

For those who don't want to travel to Richmond Hill, there are Mockers in Downsview Park (Keele/Sheppard area). At Carl Hall Road and the Driving Test Centre, there are territories that run along the railroad tracks. You can walk through the parking lots and see them. I had a wonderful concert from one of them today. I heard: Blue Jay, Cardinal's whistles, all the sounds Red-winged Blackbird's make, gull laughing, Kildeer, Robin's tuts, and an E. Phoebe. Wow!

[David the park stroller]

A great place to see them all the time is Humber Bay Park [out on the point] or High Park, on the paths at the south end of Grenadier Pond.

[Napper]

I have seen our freindly neigbourhood  mocking birds in the downsview park area since last summer.

I can hear one (almost daily) calling in the early morning near Garrat blvd. and Gilley rd,  just north of Wilson between Keele and Dufferin (busy area, use

Ancaster rd if you want to hear and  see)

Very distinctive, meaning multiple sounds  from the same bird in a matter of seconds.  between  6.00 and 7:00 am

Napper...  :lol: