Northern Mockingbird / Moqueur polyglotte
Mimas polyglottos
Archbald, Pennsylvania
21 March 2008

This bird has an interesting story attached to it.  Here in Ottawa, northern mockingbirds are rare and only recently have slowly started to make appearances.  Their range ends along the Canadian/U.S. border, but is starting to move northward.  While visiting my parents in Pennsylvania over Easter weekend 2008, I came across this fine specimen while we were leaving a Saturday mass.  I rushed home to get my camera, and returned to find that the bird had not left - luckily for me.

I grew up in Pennsylvania and would see mockingbirds all the time.  Now that I live in Ottawa, the ordinary has become the extraordinary, and a mockingbird sighting is front-page news in the birding circles.

Northern Mockingbird / Moqueur polyglotte
Mimas polyglottos
Archbald, Pennsylvania
21 March 2008

This bird has an interesting story attached to it.  Here in Ottawa, northern mockingbirds are rare and only recently have slowly started to make appearances.  Their range ends along the Canadian/U.S. border, but is starting to move northward.  While visiting my parents in Pennsylvania over Easter weekend 2008, I came across this fine specimen while we were leaving a Saturday mass.  I rushed home to get my camera, and returned to find that the bird had not left - luckily for me.

I grew up in Pennsylvania and would see mockingbirds all the time.  Now that I live in Ottawa, the ordinary has become the extraordinary, and a mockingbird sighting is front-page news in the birding circles.