June 12: Mr. Mockingbird, more crepe myrtle colors

I've just had a breakfast of wild blackberries, picked fresh from across the road. As I'll be out of pocket for the rest of the day, I'll share something else from yesterday: I took a video of Mr. Mockingbird. He was not more than four feet above me on a branch, singing bravely. Unfortunately, the phone video quality is very low and you can't see the bird in it, but you can hear him, which was my main goal. Near the end there's a quiet space in which the calls he was practicing were a lower frequency and didn't get picked up by the speaker, but they come back in at the end. He went on for quite awhile longer, with more varied songs, than the camera would record! (Note: the video is sideways, because I don't know what I'm doing with my phone.)

I've also noticed my first mauve crepe myrtle blossoms of the year. At the same time, I saw a few lavender ones, the rarest in my experience, and the prettiest.