a mocking bird

practicing his song at night ~

too young to sing by day

We had a house guest once who was kept awake all night by a mocking bird. The guest was a singer, and he couldn't stop trying to figure out what the next note would be. A fellow birder told me that only the juveniles sing at night--they do that because if they sang    during the day they would be chased away by the adult birds.

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page 3/07/2013.

Prompt was status.

Inspired by a haiku by Laura Williams