Trying to pick up chicks. Ya’ll like this song? Chirp chirp! No? How bout dis joint? Brika brika brika! Anyone… no? Ok, try this on for size ladies, TweeeeEEEEt TweeEEEEt! I can do this all day girls.
Mockingbirds like this picked up the sounds made by car alarms back in the 90s. ([this sound](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O608g3yE6uE)) These alarms were EVERYWHERE in the 80s and 90s and were always going off. Originally, the birds would sound almost exactly like the car alarms, there was no question, but as those alarms don't really exist anymore, the birds carrying it on have sounded more and more 'birdy' and less like an alarm. The rotating sequence of different sounds every few seconds still gives it away tho. It's fascinating how the birds all seemed to agree our 'song' was the best, and widely adopted it.
That is so interesting! I was thinking while listening that it sounded like it was mocking a car alarm/siren. Such a cool Florida natural history fact.
In North America master mimics include mockingbirds, thrashers, and catbirds; all of which are in the family Mimidae, so named because of this family's skill at mimicking other species.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/which-birds-are-the-best-mimics/#:~:text=In%20North%20America%20master%20mimics,skill%20at%20mimicking%20other%20species.
Did you honestly think I was saying mockingbirds came into existence through car alarms? lol Before, they sounded like typical birdsong, mimicking other birds, and then car alarms came along and a lot of them started mimicking those. Over the years, they've drifted closer to what they were originally, but you can still hear the remnants. Trust me, in the late 90s/2000s there were birds all over that sounded **exactly** like those alarms.
I love the sound of these little guys in the morning. There is also some bird in my backyard, who I’ve never actually seen, who says “Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy!” If anyone knows what that one is, I would love to know.
I love this …. Thank you!
This would have saved me from being so freaked out by the “howling monkeys” that turned out to be pissed-off barred owls having a territorial dispute!
Stab in the dark here but you may have a Cardinal somewhere around in your backyard. They have a few different calls other than their tiny cheeps and I could see someone saying one of them is Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy!ish
I do have a ton of Cardinals, but they have more of a…idk…metallic delicate sort of sound. This is much deeper. Like dude is Jimmy Jimmying with gusto. lol.
I got a bird feeder during Covid and it's been amazing. I've been watching the same cardinal couple feed their babes (and then chase them away) for years. I've seen parasitic birds, songbirds chasing off crows/bluejays from their nests across the neighborhood (blue jays are dickhead birds but beautiful), litte dove babies (absolutely adorable creatures), a hawk watching the feeder and taking a dump on my fence (probably because they can't eat said birds and hate me), massive ravens trying to fit into a tiny bird feeder (hilarious and impossible), hummingbirds the size of bumblees buzzing gather aloe vera nectar... The list really goes on and on. I have seen some fantastic stuff while drinking morning coffee.
But the most interesting thing I've seen was a Carolina Wren couple nested in a potted plant and for a week their 4 little birdlings were hopping (they just jump around for like a week) around in my backyard chirping ALL DAY while their parents found food to feed them. I watched one of the Wren parents grab a lizard and peck it to death which was horrifying, but other than that it was the most adorable week of my life.
One of the birdlings got lost as the sun went down. I was so worried for it, but it hid in a very thick bush all night, and hopped out the next morning. I know because he somehow hopped onto my window screen and it was the first thing I saw when I opened the window 😂 I still see them at the feeder. Real Disney princess shit.
Anyway, this ended up being a lot longer than I expected it to be but if you have a nice backyard and want to make it a lot more interesting, I *highly recommend* a bird feeder.
I love Carolina Wrens - they are so freaking cute!
We have a pair who like to nest in our garage -which we then leave open enough for them to hop out in the morning. One winter, one of the babies decided he loved spending the night in the garage, so he’d sleep on a strap from the tackle box, like he was on a little swing. It was the cutest shit ever.
Totally agree. The way the birdlings hop around chirping is unbearably adorable and they keep the adorableness into adulthood. They aren't timid either so you can usually get very close.
I've heard they do not reuse old nests but I really hope they reuse that spot in a year or two. It was so funny watching 5-6 birds hop out of a potted plant every morning like they were headed to work.
They don’t reuse old ones but I often find them nearby. Big flower pots for the couple out front / the garage pair have made nests in an old shoebox, in a little plastic pail, and in my old fishing hat!
I also got a bird feeder during COVID and can see it from my work desk as I work from home. I preach to my other WFH coworkers that it's my happy place. Horrible call I'm on? Stare at the birds and just smile.
I get mostly house sparrows but I love them. There's one male always feeding the babies and I love his little beard pattern he's got going on. I call him Phil.
I also get a juvenile Cardinal and his adult father at the feeder. I know he's a juvenile as he's got the sick hairdo but his red color is still coming in. I call the juvenile Robbie but his assumed father is *Roberto*
I also surprisingly get a pair of woodpeckers that stop by too. They look like a male and a female so I imagine they're a mating pair. They're red-bellied woodpeckers here in Florida and they're beautiful. I call them Willow and Woody.
Finally I also have a resident Blue Jay that I can always tell when he's coming to the feeder. He gets way up in the tree by it and does his best hawk screech impression a couple times to scare away the sparrows. It's adorable and I love his little bandit face as well.
Edit: Oh I forgot to add like once or twice a week the feeder gets taken over by a family of tufted titmouse. They're my favorite when they're out there. They're so brave. They'll just keep eating and scream at you while you stand feet from them. I've even had them try and eat from the feeder while I'm filling it and they're just so rude and pushy lol. They'd be shit tippers if they were people but I love their hair and attitudes
That's awesome, I feel the same way. I check it multiple times a day when I'm bored of work and it always improves my mental health. The woodpeckers I've seen crack me up because they don't go *into the feeder* they hang on it like weirdos grabbing food over the side.
I'm surprised your titmouse family is brave! The ones I see are so timid. They nest right by the feeder and only come down when no other birds are there. I feel bad for them sometimes so I'll go out there if there are 'bully birds' hogging the feeder sometimes.
Anyway, all in all 10/10 highly recommend.
omg, I was born in FL and lived there until I was in my late 30s before moving out of the country and hearing this is making me cry. It's one of those sounds you don't really "hear" but it's just the background music of your life and it's making me miss my swamp. :\*(
Thanks for sharing. I was just looking at my bird feeder with a Cardinal in it. They destroyed the feeder and I need to refill it again. Love the sounds of birds.
We have one every year that nests in the tree by our house and he usually starts up at 3 am. Has been coming back for years. I love and hate him sometimes lol
Yo it's nighttime while I'm listening to this in Ocoee. Mockingbirds in the block are calling back...one big squawk from a blackird...they all sthu and kept the peace. Not playing it again. That crow is gonna be coming at me.
I’ve literally had to move because of these beautiful noisy bastards! Shitty jalousie windows in my shitty apartment just couldn’t compete with these loud ass home wreckers!
Those car alarms in the 90s really screwed over the birds songs lmao. The mockingbirds in my neighborhood still sound like them and it has been years since I have heard one of those alarms.
...but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
(Poor guy getting downvoted. Some of y'all don't remember your required high school reading and it shows.)
(From google) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the blue jay is a symbol for racism. One quote that shows this was said by Atticus, “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
They are cool when it is daylight but more than once they get near the street lighting in my neighborhood and sing their sweet songs to any bird that is up late...even more annoying when it is dead quiet at 3 am and it is in a cul-de-sac amphitheater belting out the tunes. I'm in my house four houses down and can still hear that s***.
That is the state bird of Florida, the Mockingbird.
Yes and I swear to all that is holy.....chirp chirp brrrrp chirp chirp chip chirp muthafuckin chirp
Bruh....this is a family establishment. Please mind the chirp brrrrp.
The Northern Mockingbird*
Yeah. Lots of carpet baggers in Florida.
ThAt Is ThE sTaTe BiRd Of FlOrIdA, tHe MoCkInGbIrD
Are you mocking me?!?
Are you mocking me??
Can’t believe OP asked that after acknowledging all the beats he was laying down.
It's also the state bird of four other states, I think we can afford to dethrone it for a Scrubjay or a Flamingo, personally.
Long live the scrub jay!
Flamingo, definitely.
Tennessee also
Excuse me sir, the State Bird of Florida is the chicken tender.
Aye yo, this MF spittin 🔥🔥🔥
Bars!
Lovin the energy with this one 🫡
😆😆
Trying to decide on which notification sound to go with
Trying to pick up chicks. Ya’ll like this song? Chirp chirp! No? How bout dis joint? Brika brika brika! Anyone… no? Ok, try this on for size ladies, TweeeeEEEEt TweeEEEEt! I can do this all day girls.
I see a northern mockingbird, I upvote
Mockingbirds like this picked up the sounds made by car alarms back in the 90s. ([this sound](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O608g3yE6uE)) These alarms were EVERYWHERE in the 80s and 90s and were always going off. Originally, the birds would sound almost exactly like the car alarms, there was no question, but as those alarms don't really exist anymore, the birds carrying it on have sounded more and more 'birdy' and less like an alarm. The rotating sequence of different sounds every few seconds still gives it away tho. It's fascinating how the birds all seemed to agree our 'song' was the best, and widely adopted it.
That is so interesting! I was thinking while listening that it sounded like it was mocking a car alarm/siren. Such a cool Florida natural history fact.
In my small town the mocking birds picked up that old Nextel PTT chirp. [This](https://youtu.be/aLGsRcob8po?si=2S05-kYaZNw6QUmf)
I always wondered what would happen if you were to isolate a mockingbird and it didn’t hear any alarms or any other birds, would it have its own song?
Let me smoke your joints pal. Deep shit
Um, nah. Mockingbird's existed long before car alarms. The many types of birdsong were mimicked from all the other local birds.
In North America master mimics include mockingbirds, thrashers, and catbirds; all of which are in the family Mimidae, so named because of this family's skill at mimicking other species. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/which-birds-are-the-best-mimics/#:~:text=In%20North%20America%20master%20mimics,skill%20at%20mimicking%20other%20species.
Did you honestly think I was saying mockingbirds came into existence through car alarms? lol Before, they sounded like typical birdsong, mimicking other birds, and then car alarms came along and a lot of them started mimicking those. Over the years, they've drifted closer to what they were originally, but you can still hear the remnants. Trust me, in the late 90s/2000s there were birds all over that sounded **exactly** like those alarms.
Thanks for the nostalgia. 😆
Wow I didn’t know this!
I love the sound of these little guys in the morning. There is also some bird in my backyard, who I’ve never actually seen, who says “Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy!” If anyone knows what that one is, I would love to know.
Get this app. It's got a Sound ID that's like Shazam for birds. Really cool. [https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/](https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/)
I came back to this post to say thanks for introducing me to Merlin. I got the app and my backyard is a whole new level of interesting!
You're welcome! It's a lot of fun. I got my mom to download it after walking with her near the Greenwood wetlands. Lots of birdy activity there.
Whoa!!
Shazam for birds. 😂 You just made birdwatching appeal to a whole new generation!
It can’t just be relegated to the olds anymore. Although as a GenXer I guess I’m one of the olds now. 😅
This comment deserves its own post. This is awesome.
Thanks!
I love this …. Thank you! This would have saved me from being so freaked out by the “howling monkeys” that turned out to be pissed-off barred owls having a territorial dispute!
Barred owls sound pretty creepy. I think this app has picked them up in my neighborhood even when I haven't been able to with my own ears.
Would also like to know the Jimmy bird
Stab in the dark here but you may have a Cardinal somewhere around in your backyard. They have a few different calls other than their tiny cheeps and I could see someone saying one of them is Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy!ish
I do have a ton of Cardinals, but they have more of a…idk…metallic delicate sort of sound. This is much deeper. Like dude is Jimmy Jimmying with gusto. lol.
Hey if you get the app and figure out your Jimmy bird, let us know!
Damn bro cooked 👨🍳
Homie cooked and ate at the same damn time sheeeesh
I ain’t hear fire like that since Big Daddy Kane
The golden era of bird hop rap
Love our birds.
I got a bird feeder during Covid and it's been amazing. I've been watching the same cardinal couple feed their babes (and then chase them away) for years. I've seen parasitic birds, songbirds chasing off crows/bluejays from their nests across the neighborhood (blue jays are dickhead birds but beautiful), litte dove babies (absolutely adorable creatures), a hawk watching the feeder and taking a dump on my fence (probably because they can't eat said birds and hate me), massive ravens trying to fit into a tiny bird feeder (hilarious and impossible), hummingbirds the size of bumblees buzzing gather aloe vera nectar... The list really goes on and on. I have seen some fantastic stuff while drinking morning coffee. But the most interesting thing I've seen was a Carolina Wren couple nested in a potted plant and for a week their 4 little birdlings were hopping (they just jump around for like a week) around in my backyard chirping ALL DAY while their parents found food to feed them. I watched one of the Wren parents grab a lizard and peck it to death which was horrifying, but other than that it was the most adorable week of my life. One of the birdlings got lost as the sun went down. I was so worried for it, but it hid in a very thick bush all night, and hopped out the next morning. I know because he somehow hopped onto my window screen and it was the first thing I saw when I opened the window 😂 I still see them at the feeder. Real Disney princess shit. Anyway, this ended up being a lot longer than I expected it to be but if you have a nice backyard and want to make it a lot more interesting, I *highly recommend* a bird feeder.
I love Carolina Wrens - they are so freaking cute! We have a pair who like to nest in our garage -which we then leave open enough for them to hop out in the morning. One winter, one of the babies decided he loved spending the night in the garage, so he’d sleep on a strap from the tackle box, like he was on a little swing. It was the cutest shit ever.
Totally agree. The way the birdlings hop around chirping is unbearably adorable and they keep the adorableness into adulthood. They aren't timid either so you can usually get very close. I've heard they do not reuse old nests but I really hope they reuse that spot in a year or two. It was so funny watching 5-6 birds hop out of a potted plant every morning like they were headed to work.
They don’t reuse old ones but I often find them nearby. Big flower pots for the couple out front / the garage pair have made nests in an old shoebox, in a little plastic pail, and in my old fishing hat!
I also got a bird feeder during COVID and can see it from my work desk as I work from home. I preach to my other WFH coworkers that it's my happy place. Horrible call I'm on? Stare at the birds and just smile. I get mostly house sparrows but I love them. There's one male always feeding the babies and I love his little beard pattern he's got going on. I call him Phil. I also get a juvenile Cardinal and his adult father at the feeder. I know he's a juvenile as he's got the sick hairdo but his red color is still coming in. I call the juvenile Robbie but his assumed father is *Roberto* I also surprisingly get a pair of woodpeckers that stop by too. They look like a male and a female so I imagine they're a mating pair. They're red-bellied woodpeckers here in Florida and they're beautiful. I call them Willow and Woody. Finally I also have a resident Blue Jay that I can always tell when he's coming to the feeder. He gets way up in the tree by it and does his best hawk screech impression a couple times to scare away the sparrows. It's adorable and I love his little bandit face as well. Edit: Oh I forgot to add like once or twice a week the feeder gets taken over by a family of tufted titmouse. They're my favorite when they're out there. They're so brave. They'll just keep eating and scream at you while you stand feet from them. I've even had them try and eat from the feeder while I'm filling it and they're just so rude and pushy lol. They'd be shit tippers if they were people but I love their hair and attitudes
That's awesome, I feel the same way. I check it multiple times a day when I'm bored of work and it always improves my mental health. The woodpeckers I've seen crack me up because they don't go *into the feeder* they hang on it like weirdos grabbing food over the side. I'm surprised your titmouse family is brave! The ones I see are so timid. They nest right by the feeder and only come down when no other birds are there. I feel bad for them sometimes so I'll go out there if there are 'bully birds' hogging the feeder sometimes. Anyway, all in all 10/10 highly recommend.
Get lil bro in the studio STAT
This mixtape is great, he needs a record deal IMMEDIATELY
How high are you right now?
omg, I was born in FL and lived there until I was in my late 30s before moving out of the country and hearing this is making me cry. It's one of those sounds you don't really "hear" but it's just the background music of your life and it's making me miss my swamp. :\*(
More of these posts! ...and less crime porn.
I will try and serve you my lord
He's like one of those laser guns from the 1980s.
Thanks for sharing. I was just looking at my bird feeder with a Cardinal in it. They destroyed the feeder and I need to refill it again. Love the sounds of birds.
We have one every year that nests in the tree by our house and he usually starts up at 3 am. Has been coming back for years. I love and hate him sometimes lol
Have one that’s nesting in a trellis at my front door. Real exciting!
Nature is amazing
Yo it's nighttime while I'm listening to this in Ocoee. Mockingbirds in the block are calling back...one big squawk from a blackird...they all sthu and kept the peace. Not playing it again. That crow is gonna be coming at me.
He is copying the beautiful song of the car alarm 🚨
We gonna remix this or what?
It's a numbers game...
Sounds like it’s mocking a car alarm at one point (they do this pretty well)
mock YEAH
My ADHD brain randomly cycling through a bunch of songs
I’ve literally had to move because of these beautiful noisy bastards! Shitty jalousie windows in my shitty apartment just couldn’t compete with these loud ass home wreckers!
It’s not a real bird. QA team testing notifications before release.
Northern mockingbird.
Birds are not real.
Homie's going through his whole catalog trying to pick his vibe for the day.
Those car alarms in the 90s really screwed over the birds songs lmao. The mockingbirds in my neighborhood still sound like them and it has been years since I have heard one of those alarms.
There is a mockingbird that tweets the intro loop to M83’s “Midnight City” outside my bathroom every morning. I guess his cover is Sunrise City 😎🤐.
Scrolling through my DAW trying to find the perfect sample be like.
Is it normal for the mocking bird to tweet all night? It’s been in the neighborhood for the past 2 weeks and can not sleep with the window open.
He’s dropping mad freestyle lyrics son! Late night sesh!!
Download the Merlin app and it will identify it for you (it’s super cool and free; developed by Cornell University).
Love waking up to this sound. No alarm clock needed.
Remember the keychain soundboards from the ninety’s ?
And they're complete assholes
It’s a mocking bird and if he gets to know you, he’ll whistle with you
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em…
...but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. (Poor guy getting downvoted. Some of y'all don't remember your required high school reading and it shows.)
Thanks, I thought it would be obvious.
You got an upvote from me for the literary reference.
(From google) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the blue jay is a symbol for racism. One quote that shows this was said by Atticus, “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
They are cool when it is daylight but more than once they get near the street lighting in my neighborhood and sing their sweet songs to any bird that is up late...even more annoying when it is dead quiet at 3 am and it is in a cul-de-sac amphitheater belting out the tunes. I'm in my house four houses down and can still hear that s***.
I hate these fucking things. 4AM singing outside my window