Mocking Birds of San Diego

When I was 4 years old I had been born in 1948 in Seattle Washington and lived in Lake Forest park until my father decided we should all move to San Diego where it was warmer and very different from Seattle in every way. In Seattle it was cloudy most of the year. The water was colder there but often we swam in Puget sound in the summers as I grew up until age 4 when we took the train to San Diego. My mother, her mother and I took the train. My father had already driven south but this was likely a 4 day drive then without freeways. I can remember from El Cajon to mt. Shasta when I was 5 was 2 to 2 1/2 days then also because there was no freeway over the Grapevine (and it really was a grapevine then) and many big trucks were lost because there were no disk brakes yet for big Trucks only shoe brakes. So, often they would give way and the truck, the load and the driver would all be lost then over the Grapevine or the grade up to Mt. Shasta from Redding or the Grade up or down through Mt. Ashland pass into Ashland ORegon and Medford then.

So, we took the train all the way to San Diego and stayed with the heads of my parents church in San Diego for a couple of weeks until we could move into our first rental house in Vista. I remember being spanked by a neighbor's father because I didn't know what I was supposed to do or not do there in Vista then because the culture was so different than Seattle.

And I also remember the Mocking birds and waking up at 3 to 6 am in the mornings and listening to them chirp and imitate literally every local birds song. So, it was like haveing 20 or 30 different birds chirping their chirps ongoing forever. I was amazed by all the racket but also entertained then by it because of course we didn't have a TV yet. ONly my Grandfather had a TV in 1952 yet to watch the Republican Conventions and then to watch Eisenhower get elected in 1952.

So, my grandfather's TV in Seattle was the first TV set I could sit and watch and what we watched was the REpublican Convention then in 1952. So, this was the first TV show I ever saw then.

Here is a  youtube of San Diego Mocking Birds:

Stalking the Wild Mockingbird : Singing in San Diego Springtime ...

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May 30, 2014 - Uploaded by Pallathur1917

After singing all night, this boy is still singing. What stamina. Every spring for a month or two these guys sing ...

Northern Mockingbird - Bird Friends Of Lake Murray & San Diego

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Mimus Polyglottos. Description: Do you remember the phrase "... mama's going to buy you a Mockingbird ..." from the childrens song Hush Little Baby? Because of their ability to sing a large variety songs, Mockingbirds were captured and sold as caged pets in the 18 and 19th centuries. This nearly caused their extinction in ...

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