I LOATHE mocking birds. All they do is torment other living things.
When the ex and I first moved to VA, we lived in this really old apt building with 9 ft. windows. Of course they didn't have screens to fit, so we just opened them and our cats, Jake and Elwood, would come and go as they pleased. There was this mockingbird that would dive bomb them when they were laying in the sun on the porch, and I guess one day it flew in the window. The cats got even, there were feathers from one end of the apartment to the other! We never did find the bird....