Our Mocking Birds are Drunk (again)

[BOSSHOG]

They are feasting on green berrys from the Holly Trees and are blathering on and on and on. Quite lovely little tunes actually.

[scarlett1]

1. You know it is a sin to Kill a Mockingbird

So Aticus says

[sasquatch]

4. What about FReepers?

:evilgrin:

[Kurovski]

23. It's a sin for them to kill Mockingbirds, too.

Unless they're in the Bush administration's EPA.

[electropop]

2. Sounds like right wing radio

drinking and moocking.

[Maddy McCall]

3. Did they get some fermented berries?

That's too funny. :hi:

[BOSSHOG]

11. They are having a veritable concert on the northside of the house

We have two Holly Trees out front chock full of green berries. They usually perform solo but today a gang of them are going nonstop right outside my window.

As Elton John might say:

My mocking birds are drunker than a barrel full of monkeys.

[TahitiNut]

19. Pretty soon they'll be FWI and hitting the windows and side of the house.

(FWI = Flying While Intoxicated) It's the Funny Season.

[Gruenemann]

5. Ah!

I thought from the subject line this was a coded message regarding Plan X.

[BOSSHOG]

7. Grasshopper, avoid the mailbox

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Drunk birds? That's kinda funny, really. *g*

[Skidmore]

14. Yeah, my daughter has a crab apple tree near her patio

and the birds and squirrels get drunk on the fermented apples that drop to the ground and party together. It's funny to watch.

[kestrel91316]

32. When my kadota figs ripen and ferment on the tree I bet the

crows and jays get plenty drunk!!!!!! And the squirrels, too.

The icky part is when the fermenting figs go splat on the lawn and then turn to vinegar. Fig vinegar smell permeates my yard every July/Aug.

[Spinzonner]

8. Well, as long as there's no FUI, they should be OK

[karlrschneider]

9. Is it a tequila mockingbird?

:evilgrin:

[On the Road]

10. Good One!

[Kurovski]

24. Take away their car keys!

And maybe we should take away karl's, too. :-)

:thumbsup: Good one, karlr.

[karlrschneider]

25. Take 'em! I'll just use the golf cart!

:D

[Kurovski]

26. You are so recalcitrant!

:D

[karlrschneider]

28. I know, and I have been observed matriculating in public!

;-)

[Kurovski]

29. well, you seem to be the

matriculating, masticating recalcitrant type. :-)

[karlrschneider]

30. I have masticated every day for over 50 years.

Maybe that's why I need glasses...
:evilgrin:
oops, typo

[Kurovski]

31. Some say you should masticate in cycles of thirty

for each bit. I find that excessive, particularly over a 50 year period.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. I thought this was about Bush & co.!!

[longship]

13. Some of our mockingbirds sing like cell phones.

We've got a lot of mockingbirds in the yard. A few months ago I was outside and heard my cell phone ring. I ran into my office to answer it only to realize that the sound was outside. I listened and it was a silly mockingbird mimicking my cell phone's ring.

I laughed and laughed. It made my morning.

[BOSSHOG]

15. We love em

We also have geese in a pond about a quarter mile down the road and they fly over our house every morning. We truly appreciate the mocking birds. We have bird feeders all over our one acre wooded lot so we have visitors year round.

[Cleita]

20. I've heard the birds mimic electronic sounds like the beeps

on trucks backing up and the cell phone beeps. Really funny I think.

[catzies]

33. I have one that imitated a caged cockatiel...sounded like an escaped pet!

I love mockingbirds and am always very happy when they choose to live near me. :)

[Castilleja]

34. I have heard them imitate the "reverse" beeping of a truck

They apparently learned this after a long bout of construction nearby. We thought that was funny as hell. They also try to copy you whistling. Cool birds.

*Man, I am getting bad at spelling.....

[Gildor Inglorion]

16. So THAT explains it! I wondered what had got into the little critters...

everywhere you go here in Stone County, there are mockingbirds singing wildly, as if on speed. Now I know why!

[BOSSHOG]

18. They feed on bugs and berries

You won't find them at a bird feeder.

[Stephanie]

17. That's ok. So is our President.

[Habibi]

21. I love mockers!

Do they migrate? In any event, they are the cheeriest harbingers of spring up here in the North Country.

[zanne]

22. I once brought a drunk pigeon to the vet.

I didn't know it was drunk, of course. I thought maybe my cat had gotten to it; it looked so pathetic, just lying on the sidewalk. So I put him in a box and drove to the animal clinic. He made cooing sounds all the way there. I thought "That's a strange way for an injured pigeon in a box to behave". The vet checked him out, laughed and said "He's just drunk. I'll let him sleep it off then let him go". Apparently he'd been feasting in our cherry trees.

[Neil Lisst]

27. When Mockingbird's get drunk, they put out like Robins!

just saying ...


Who? Hu.
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/neillisst

[Kurovski]

35. Say, I thought I was in the lounge!--n/t