Mockingbirds? good grief man..

Waydog · Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:30 pm

SO I get home today and notice piles of twigs on the porches of one side of one of my houses. I go inside, and wait for a few , look out the window, and see mockingbirds steadily bringing twigs up to the porch like they were nest building. I go out, clean them off, it was a handful, and they go right back, hanging around, but didn't bring anymore. Of course, they cant get in the compartments, and theyre not cavity dwellers, at least i didn't think so. I guess they just thought they'd build on the porch. Good grief! Starlings, sparrows, not mockingbirds too???

DornCounty · Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:33 pm

interesting.. I have several pairs of mockers and they haven't even looked at my house.

bacato · Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:47 pm

Cavities are odd for mockingbirds, they usually like thick shrubs and will build a nest about head high - then become very territorial.

Waydog · Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:03 pm

During my observing them for the few minutes I did, they were just puttting them on the porch. They were way to big to get in the SREH's. But yes, I thought it quite odd!

bacato · Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:08 pm

Maybe they're bored with just mocking PM sounds? They're acting like them too!

~Ray~Gingerich · Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:18 am

I have mockingbirds too, they leave my martins alone but are tough on the robins. Just last evening a robin and mockingbird flew across my yard with the mocking bird just inches from the robins tail.

jr 2 · Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:44 am

mockers have been chasing my robins too; had one pair of robins just fjr2ledge the last of 4 today;;nest was under my front porch;;robins were also trying too build on the porch of 1 of my martin houses until i put a shelf up under front porch;;

MartiStupka · Wed Apr 25, 2012 4:09 pm

We have a very large mockingbird population here in SW Florida, and I have never seen what was described. The mockingbirds do their thing and the Purple Martins do theirs. They will occassionally form an alliance and go after the crows, which I thoroughly enjoy. Both birds have excellent dive bombing skills. The mockingbirds will occassionally sit on one the Purple Martin perches, but that's it.

Waydog · Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:15 pm

They havent attempted any more activity since i i posted this. it was a one day deal! I dont know what they were thinking, but I hope they got the message that you cant build on the PM house porches!!!!