I saw this bird at a local horse farm. He was just kind of meandering from fence to fence looking for whatever it is birds look for. I did a little looking and I'm pretty sure he's a mockingbird, but I'm new to the birding portion of bird photography, so I'm not particularly confident about my ability to identify. Anyway, this photo was taken yesterday in Wellington, FL (west of Lake Worth, if that helps). I liked his color against the black fence so I watched him until he landed where I could get him against all that dark, rich, grainy blackness.
Well done Matt! I should have mentioned that although there is just one common mockingbird in NA- the Northern Mockingbird, where you are in S. Florida, you could get the Bahama Mockingbird and even the Tropical Mockingbird as vagrants. They come from the Bahamas and the Lesser Antilles respectively. Both lack the white patch in the wing and the Bahama Mocker is more streaked/speckled.
Last edited by John Chardine; 02-28-2012 at 01:35 PM.
Is this a mockingbird?
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