A mockingbird?

[Coastal Flyer]

I don't know what this is but mockingbirds are usually summertime creatures, even here in the southwest.

CF

[payn817]

That's what it looks like to me. Yeah, the weather is having an odd impact this year. Butterflies never went dormant here, daffodils and sunflowers are blooming. Some birds never did migrate (or are coming home already), and we have quite a few shorebirds coming inland and roosting about 200 miles from the coast.

[Coastal Flyer]

I have seen butterflies also which is unusual. I have hummingbirds that are usually not here for a couple months. The cactus are blooming right on schedule however.

CF

[dadas115]

We have mockingbirds here year around so it wouldn't have seemed odd to me but your bird sure does appear to be a Northern Mockingbird.

Greg

[Old Timer]

What ever it is you did a beautiful job on the capture.

[Knight]

Yup good Capture

[Coastal Flyer]

Thanks everyone for the comments. Mockingbirds, perhaps all birds, are so skitish. Usually I cannot get near them. But this little number was quite patient and let me get within 5 yards.

Thanks again.

CF

[paulnj]

This is a very odd year for birds! NJ had a violet-eared hummingbird recently amoung other vagiants 1000's of mile from home.