Mockingbird with substitute fruits for stolen crab apples

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Submitted By

Alfred Banfield

Bangor, ME, United States

Description

The mockingbird that has lived in our yard for years started driving cardinals and other birds from the feeder after hundreds of bohemian waxwings had stripped the crab apples, holly bushes, and other fruit-bearing bushes in our yard late in the winter. He left the birds at the feeders alone after being offered oranges and other fruits to replace the stolen fruits.