Tuesday, June 22, 2010

MYSTERY BIRD IN MASS.




From YouTube: These birds have been living in a blue spruce outside of my house in Cambridge, Mass. They always make a nest in early June, and this is the third year we have had babies cheeping in the tree. This video is of the mother bird on the roof. I would love to know what type of bird they are!

2 comments:

  1. The colouring is hard to make out, but basic shape and white on outer edge of wings suggests Northern Mockingbird

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  2. It's a Northern Mockingbird.

    The white wing patches, the call, and the display behavior are all distinctive.

    The Wikipedia article on the species is pretty decent and has a photo of the display behavior.

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