The Mockingbird is a very important visitor to your backyard. Not only is it's song enchanting, but they will help to eat many of your nuisance garden insects! The song is a mixture of original and imitative phrases, each repeated several times. It will imitate other species' songs and calls, squeaky gates, pianos, sirens, barking dogs, etc. During the mating season the male will mark his territory with song.

The Mockingbird's primary diet is insects (beetles, ants, grasshoppers and spiders),berries and seed. Mockingbirds will not typically visit your seed feeders. However you can attract them to your backyard by:

• Offer apples or pomegranates to mockingbirds on a Mockingbird Apple Feeder
• Offer chopped dried fruit grapes or Raisins Suet on a Platform Feeder
• Have Drinking Water for Birds
• Plant berry bushes such as holly, mulberries, raspberries, Virginia creeper, blackberries, dogwood, elderberries, hackberry, brambles, pyracantha, cotoneaster, grapes or figs.