Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) If you need to relax, grow plants!!
I just have one counterpoint. Did anyone ever consider either a Loggerhead or Northern Shrike? They look so much like a Mockingbird that a real amateur bird watcher could easily confuse them! Now shrikes do eat meat as in other fledglings or baby birds.
They were as common as Mockingbirds in SW Florida.
Only an experienced birder could quickly note the differences.
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.
