Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 16, 2015

Yeah because he can’t catch them and eat them if they don’t come near him……..

You just don’t count anymore, if the mockingbirds refuse to acknowledge your existence.

Change “the mockingbirds” to “younger women” and “harass” to “notice”.

My wife will take up the slack.

I know how Ludwig feels. We have a robin that has been ‘harassing’ my car and ‘sh_tting’ on it since the begining of Spring.

I had a great cat, which used to catch birds and bring them into the house, through the doggie door, and let them go in the house. They were still alive and well while we tried to catch the bird to let him (or her) back outside. This was also true of chipmunks.

He’s no challenge anymore….

When I was a teenager we had a cat who was driven mad, I think, by a mockingbird. Misty would step out the kitchen door, look all around, and make a mad dash for the grape arbor before the mockingbird would swoop out of the apple tree and attack him. It was a good day when he made it without getting clipped on the head.

Mockingbirds defend their nests, even unto the third and fourth generation.

I once heard a cardinal singing its territorial call, so I answered it. This resulted in a few exchanges of “no, its my territory”, until the cardinal’s call suddenly segued into a Woody Woodpecker laugh. A mockingbird was doing precisely what I was doing.

Lone male mockingbirds will sing at night trying to attract a mate. One took up right outside our bedroom, so at midnight one night my husband opened the window and sang it a tune. It stopped, listening intently—and then sang it back to him!

Saucy1121: Catbird, mockingbird, and brown thrasher are closely related, but different species. Catbird is solid gray, mockingbird is gray with white bars on the wings, brown thrasher has mockingbirds markings but in shades of brown.