The Mockingbirds are drunk this morning

[BOSSHOG]

here in South Mississippi after eating berries off the Holly Trees. Their songs seem so much sweeter and so much louder after they've gotten tanked up. We had our first Hummingbird visitor yesterday. The feeders have been hung and the Impatiens planted. I think I'll get a hot cup of dark roasted Community Coffee and sit a spell on the South Patio and plan my next venture to the French Quarter.

[Demit]

1. That sounds nice, she said wistfully. Here in PA we keeping waiting for

the first day of Spring. We know it's coming any day now...

[rogerashton]

2. It's the right time of the year to be in the Gulf South, innit?

My old home, Shreveport La, is mighty green right now, I'll bet. Here in Southeastern Pa, on the fall line where Ridley Creek cuts down from the plateau to the coastal plain, it will be pretty as all getout in a few weeks, but just starting to green up a little.

My dad lived in Beaumont in the 70's. The one in Miss-ssippi -- most of his mail was forwarded from Texas. I had an uncle in Hattiesburg, too, at that time. But, working in damnyankeeland, I could only get down in the summer. Bummer. And that was before I got interested in butterflies.

[Jamastiene]

3. I sing better when I'm drunk too

I'm not necessarily any better. I can just relax and enjoy it more then. We already have mosquitoes here in NC, a little early. The birds are busy up here right now. Spring has sprung. :)

[trof]

4. drunken chickens

My mother-in-law had made some blackberry wine. After she bottled it, she threw the mash...lees...whatever out into the chicken yard. A while later we looked out to see the chickens staggering around, literally knee-walking.

They laid soft-shelled eggs the next day.
Inedible.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Ah, mockingbirds. How I miss them!!

I used to sit out on the lanai and have my morning coffee and read the paper while shitloads of mockingbirds were squawking and rolling around on the ground.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

6. Had the same thing with Martins back up in Michigan in the fall

when the mountain ash berries started to ferment. They would eat them and lose all sense of navigation. Flew into windows, screens, etc. I live in the south now and presently sitting on my boat with the slider open staring into the Gulf of Mexico. Sweet day.

[jswordy]

7. My Mississippi friend said it was in the 80s there. We have upper 70s here

He always tells me the spring weather there, because we usually get it here in southern Tennessee about a day or two later. In winter, we get it first, then y'all later.

The birds do sing so sweetly at my feeders as they prepare for the season of love and nesting. Cardinals are wearing their finery! Bulbs are blooming, and the pansies we overwintered by covering the planter during frosts are blooming profusely.

After that rain we had, my grass, which I had already belatedly cut once last Friday, sprang up six inches overnight. The leaves are unfolding from the trees, and I am getting the itch to till the garden.

I love this time of year, before the bugs take over!

[Bouncy Ball]

8. The mockingbird is the state bird of Texas!

I nearly ran over a slow one just now (but I didn't and wouldn't).

http://www.lsjunction.com/bird.htm

What I like are the mourning doves we have around here and their cooing and nesting on the ground.

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i3160id.html

[BOSSHOG]

9. We have a wheelbarrow full of impatiens

in a shady corner of the yard and two Doves have made a home behind it. Their movements are very serene, almost unreal. They are a beautiful pair. The mockingbirds here are just plain nuts. They do enjoy life.