A Northern Mockingbird visited our neighborhood. I was able to get several good photographs and one good video. Propping your lens on a car is a helpful technique for maintaining stability with a telephoto lens.
![Northern Mockingbird](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52774387527_3ca14432af_z.jpg)
![Northern Mockingbird](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52775176474_d43200a344_z.jpg)
![Northern Mockingbird](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52775176429_a53e4cdcf4_z.jpg)
![Northern Mockingbird](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52775176639_d096547ba2_z.jpg)
A video of the bird singing. Did I mention that placing your lens on the top of a car really stabilizes the telephoto lenses. An external microphone would have helped here too, but I wanted to get the camera out of the house as quickly as possible and didn’t expect the mocking bird to stay as long as it did.
A crow also visited the area:
![Crow](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52775176354_3fcf1d1e23_z.jpg)
![Crow](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52774387187_d7fcb07616_z.jpg)