The fiercely protective mockingbird

Hello, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. When I was walking into work recently, a crow flew by being attacked by a mockingbird, who kept pursuing the apparently frantic bird. Mockingbirds are fiercely protective of their space and especially their nests. We couldn’t use our clothes line for several months in warm weather as one of those birds would dive bomb us. While in Atlanta, Edward and I would walk to a store at the end of the block and our kitty cat, who had obviously offended a mockingbird, had to walk under the cars to stay safe. Ann Nolte said they had a mockingbird that kept attacking his image in the side mirror of their truck. They can distinguish the faces of people who really tick them off - – researchers found they could pick one person out of a hundred to pester!!