Scarborough Mockingbird

brummiebirder · **on:** June 03, 2009, 05:01:47 PM

For those wishing to view, and hear, a Mockingbird, one has been in the following location for several days, is there most of the day and is easy to observe.

Go to 721 Progress Avenue - it's a business area and beside a company called BRAFASCO there is a small creek. At the rear of the parking lot near the wild area that borders the creek there is a small group of bushes and a taller tree. The bird can be found and heard there at almost any time of day.

JimmyM · **Reply #1 on:** June 03, 2009, 08:15:36 PM

Did you recognize any of the mimics ?
I saw / heard one earlier this spring and could make out a Robin , 2 others were indistinct, and very clearly - a cricket.
Regards,
JimmyM

brummiebirder · **Reply #2 on:** June 03, 2009, 08:26:27 PM

Haven't had much time to listen to mimics, usually have 2 rushed minutes at most but it does have a repertoire of several including that of a catbird and a robin.

Will try and get more info over the next few days.

Whittam · **Reply #3 on:** June 04, 2009, 03:31:52 PM

I visited 721 Progress today about 1PM. A very interesting little spot! I did not hear the Mockingbird but I did see/hear the following: Chestnut sided warbler, Yellow warbler, Goldfinch, Tree swallow, Kingbird, Mourning dove, Starling, RW Blackbird, Ring-billed gull and Willow Flycatcher (Fitz-buew). Cheers Terry

jjmb · **Reply #4 on:** June 04, 2009, 10:12:27 PM

Elsewhere in Scarborough, at Bluffers Park, a mockingbird family out with their fledgling, seen near the path by the beach. Also, another pair spotted on the top of the bluffs, same area that they nested in last year. Could it be that last year's offspring returned to the same area as their parents and set up housekeeping too?