There is a nest in the back of our backyard, in a tree \ud83d\ude09 — yesterday or the day before I was back there and looked up and saw a baby Mockingbird peering over the side of the nest, sort of, while Mama Mockingbird watched anxiously atop the nearby Weeping Willow. I knew a Mockingbird was nesting there, and also had heard baby sounds previously.<\/p>\n
Today hubby was out cutting the grass this morning and had me go out to see something, it was a baby Mockingbird in the back corner of the yard … and Mama and Daddy Mockingbird were both circling and chirping at the baby and encouraging it to move. I don’t know how many babies they had in this clutch, but hubby had seen “two” and there was only “one” there when I got to the site.<\/p>\n
A. and V. both got to see the baby a bit later, and I wasn’t there, but they said it moved down the fence-line and was at the opposite corner now, and I did go out then and it wasn’t there, but the parents of the bab(ies) were going nuts over there, so I guess either the baby in question was hidden under brush, or had scooted under the fence where there was a slight dip in the earth and was on the other side and … whatever the situation, the parents were trying to group their young, encourage them to fly … which my children had said that the baby did flap his wings and try when they had been watching, which is really neat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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