Found a sassy Mockingbird singing it’s heart out in a parking lot in Fuquay Varina N.C. while I stopped to get gas on my way out to birding at another location. He was so loud, lol!

A common sight here in central North Carolina, suburbia often provides suitable habitat for Mockingbirds: dense shrubbery, open spaces, scattered trees and plenty of berry bushes.
Well known for their boisterous singing, Mockingbirds learn their songs from other birds, animals, and even machines around them.
They sing their playlists round and round, a wheel of chirps, chortles, squawks and trills that dominate the local soundwaves. With age and experience, they keep learning new songs.
Males, the louder and more relentless singers, may learn up to 200 songs in their lives. Their musical variety, then, can attract long-term mates who know that they have been around and have the stuff to survive.

Photo by @sally_siko
Canon 5Ds