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berries are favorites of winter mockingbirds. I once watched one of these birds fly at and knock a Pileated Woodpecker to the ground. The big, crowsized woodpecker attempted to pick off holly berries from the end of a limb. The mockingbird’s attack took him by surprise and he fell to the ground, looked around as if to say, “what was that?” Size is no deterrent to the mockingbird.
Only numbers can get the best of a mockingbird. A flock of perhaps 50 Cedar Waxwings descended on a great berry-laden holly tree at the Madeira School in McLean one February. Mimus flew at first one waxwing, then another. The bird departed only to settle in another part of the tree.
A flock of waxwings behaves as an individual and this flock’s aim was to eat red holly berries. The mockingbird failed to drive the flock from the tree. The waxwings finally flew away as one, and Mimus' supply of red berries was sharply diminished.
Occasionally I get a phone call from a reader who has had the misfortune to have his or her bird feeder become part of a mockingbird’s winter food supply. The guardianship was just as fierce and no other bird was allowed to visit even for sunflower seed.
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