Mockin'bird is the State Bird of Texas. Y'all quit badmouthin' 'em. I'm surprised someone at this cafe objects to birds singing!! We used to have a holly bush outside our kitchen window in our old house. After the berries ripened every year I could sit by that window to read or write and watch the bush fill with Mockers coming in after the ripe berries. They would proceed to stuff themselves with berries, get stoned, and sing their heads off for a time--then start eating again. And singing again, then eat again.....sometimes they'd get wobbly on a branch and fall off. Drunk mockingbirds can be a laugh a minute.
Y'all heed the warning about Pyracantha.
Dave's Wife, where do y'all live? Mockingbirds and pyracanthas sound like home here. (Central Texas)          Tw