Baby State Bird of Texas

Clicking on the photo will take you to a Picasa photo album showing several shots I captured today . . . but the sweet little baby Mockingbird shown here was the star of the show in my backyard this afternoon . . .

Baby Mockingbirds

There's an empty nest somewhere!

State Bird of Texas

This mockingbird is sitting on the shepherds hook that sits right outside my front door . . . that dead vine is the remnants of last year's morning glories . . . the soft focus affect was another one of those accidents . . . I am in the house . . . shooting through the screen door . . . if you look real close, you can actually make out the mesh of the screen . . . had to do manual focus again . . . auto-focus, once again, could not figure out what to focus on . . .

The Mocking-Bird

In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon,
Catching the lilt of every easy tune;
But when the day departs he sings of love,--
His own wild song beneath the listening moon.

Henry Van Dyke
10 November 1852 ~ 10 April 1933