IBET Update on wintering Northern Mockingbird, Lincoln Park, Chicago
Subject: IBET Update on wintering Northern Mockingbird, Lincoln Park, Chicago
From: Paul Clyne
Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012, 10:47 PM
As you may recall, a Northern Mockingbird showed up in a liquor store parking lot in a popular retail district in Chicago back in October and soon figured out that a corral of out-of-use shopping carts makes a comfortable day-bed for a marginally-extralimital-in-winter mimid, and that word on the street is that this might could be the third incarnation of the very same Minnie the Mocker that Cab Calloway immortalized in scat-song under a slightly veiled name the better part of a century ago.
Well, three and a half months later, Minnie is still on premise at the intersection of Marcey & Willow Streets in Lincoln Park. Earlier this week she single-handedly dive-bombed every last one of the two score or more starlings that were pillaging her grapes from the face of the abandoned upscale gardening store at the north end of the Binny's Beverage Depot parking lot.
To date, in 2012, I've had run-ins with Minnie on 100% of my days at work. I wonder how many of the individual chickadees I encounter when I'm actually birding share that track record.
Paul Clyne
Hyde Park, Chicago
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