[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 16 Nov 2016 11:02:01 -0500598_UTF-8 Musings on the mimids:
Since we moved to this farm on the Flint Ridge upland (western Muskingum
County) in 2000, we have usually had an overwintering mockingbird
(sometimes two), except for a 2009 - 2012 absence, when they didn't seem to
around except in summer. I figured that this had to do with the mortality
of the earlier-occurring birds, and this saddened me somewhat. It changed
for the 2012-2013 winter with the reliable presence of a mocker along the
forest edge at a spot I would pass on my almost daily walks around the
property, a spot I call the [...]
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