Even though I read To Kill a Mockingbird in eighth grade and that story has stayed with me for the past eight years of my life, I never knew what a mockingbird looked like until this day. I am not sure why I never bothered to look this up. Perhaps because I was never forced to for any class or anything, I only familiarized myself with cardinals, grackles, gold finches, doves, and house wrens. I found this mockingbird walking towards the soccer field from the grotto. I had seen these birds around campus before, but I didn’t know they were mockingbirds. I tried to hear its call, but it wasn’t making any noise at the time. It was also difficult to capture this bird in a picture. It kept hopping from branch to branch. I quickly snapped this as it jumped to the ground before it flew away.
iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5434171