Northern Mockingbird

This Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) perched near the feeder this afternoon during a brief rainshower.

See my previous Northern Mockingbird post here.

American naturalist and essayist John Burroughs (1895) called the mockingbird "Our nightingale... famed mostly for its powers of mimicry, which are truly wonderful, enabling the bird to exactly reproduce and even improve upon the notes of almost every other species of songster. . . . Here is the lark and the nightingale in one."