# Dear Mockingbird
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 12, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967 "2019-07-12T13:52:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/1 "2019-07-12T13:52:47Z")
Dear Mockingbird,
I hope this letter finds you well. I should think so, judging by your singing outside my window at seven minutes 'til five this morning.
May I complement you on the quality of your mimicry? Had I not know that my alarm was not due to go off for another seven minutes, I would have sworn you were it. Mrs Magill was wondering why I had set it early while the kids were off at camp and we could sleep in a bit. Alas, no. It was you.
I sincerely hope your mockingbird lady friends and rivals are suitably impressed by your skills.
[RIGHT]Yours,
Maus Magill[/RIGHT]
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/2 "2019-07-12T13:56:42Z")
Head on down to your local Walmart and see how many birds there can sound just like your suspension going on the fritz.
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### Author:  [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/3 "2019-07-12T13:59:03Z")
I think he was just mocking you.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/4 "2019-07-12T14:13:36Z")
All the cool cats in Bedrock dig [the mockingbird](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc9ZPPyVn7g) .
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/5 "2019-07-12T14:37:44Z")
^ (I hear Hi-Fye is a square.)
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/6 "2019-07-12T15:31:42Z")
Thanks for the laugh. 🙂
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/7 "2019-07-12T15:46:59Z")
Early Bird gets the Worm
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/8 "2019-07-12T15:48:59Z")
You are too kind.
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/9 "2019-07-12T15:53:46Z")
This time of year the birds around here start peeping and singing by 4:00 am. If I have the windows open, my flock hears them and thinks “Oh! It’s morning time! Peep! Peep! Peep!”
It’s the only time of day when I don’t think they’re very cute at all…
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/10 "2019-07-12T16:01:38Z")
Mockingbirds are the Ella Fitzgeralds of the bird world. Some of them really rock!
I hope he gets a date soon. We had one here that went for weeks.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/11 "2019-07-12T16:16:23Z")
We cut down the tree\* next to our bedroom window that our early bird used to perch in to hold concerts. I hadn’t even thought about it until this very moment, but I _have_ been getting much better sleep between 4 and 6 than I was this time last year. 🙂
- We were cutting down some trees anyway, it wasn’t out of spite.
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### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/12 "2019-07-12T16:28:52Z")
We had a couple nest on our back patio. Two eggs hatched then fledged. Then we had THREE of those loud fuckers in our yard every day, all day, and night till 1am and then again at 4am. I think they worked in shifts.
Thankfully my cat graciously murdered one and the other two got the hint and went elsewhere.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/13 "2019-07-12T16:32:21Z")
We cannot hear the outside birds singing at sunrise, as they’re drowned out by Rocco, our African Grey, wolf-whistling and saying weird things like, “Do you want a grape?”.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/14 "2019-07-12T17:45:42Z")
My grandparents had a parakeet that was a big talker. After my grandpa died (he was a heavy smoker who died of lung cancer), the bird would often do an exact mimic of the phlegmy cough sound he used to make. It was very creepy.
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### Author:  [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/15 "2019-07-12T18:01:47Z")
I wonder what evolutionary function these birds’ ability to perfectly mimic sounds serves?
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### Author:  [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/16 "2019-07-12T18:05:53Z")
> [@Cardigan](#):
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> I wonder what evolutionary function these birds’ ability to perfectly mimic sounds serves?
Sex. It’s always about sex.
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### Author:  [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/17 "2019-07-12T18:21:13Z")
Hey ladies, did you know that I can do a _very_ convincing imitation of Goofy?
Offers should be rolling in any time now…any time…
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/18 "2019-07-12T20:52:41Z")
If that mockingbird don’t sing, I think somebody has to buy you a diamond ring…
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/19 "2019-07-12T21:08:25Z")
The Mockingbirds in my yard are here to wake up the obnoxious rooster. Even the hens hate him. One day he’s gonna be a pan of chicken and dumplings.
(The rooster, not the mockingbird, it’s a sin or something to kill and eat one)
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mockingbird/836967/20 "2019-07-13T01:50:05Z")
> [@Cardigan](#):
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> I wonder what evolutionary function these birds’ ability to perfectly mimic sounds serves?
Blue Jays will swoop towards a bird feeder while imitating hawk, which makes all the other birds scatter, and then the Jay can eat all the seeds 🙂
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