[EBB Sightings] Mockingbird

Dear Birders:

I had a surprise visit on this dull, overcast day from a mockingbird who was eating the black berries of the Texas privet that grows outside my dining room window.  Though mockingbirds are residents in other parts of Berkeley, they rarely appear and then only in winter in my part of the hills close to Lawrence Hall of Science.

Both the male and female Townsend's Warbler pay daily visits to my sunflower chip feeder now.  Though primarily insect eaters they come to the feeder each January, perhaps when insects are in short supply.

-Phila Rogers

For a report on the Big Freeze of 1972 and this years Christmas count in Strawberry Canyon, check out:
www.lawrencehallofscience.org/about/stories.