On 17 Feb 2002 at 17:30, Valerie Anderson wrote:


....is it a "sneeze" or some kind of normal noise for a
> mocking bird?

Having grown up with these guys in Texas, I feel confident you can say that just
about any imaginable noise is a normal noise for a mockingbird. You can practically
identify them by "call" by just noting two things: slender shape hidden in or perched
on top of thick bush; and "strange" noise that catches you by surprise, emanating
from said bush (of course this works better in the south than here).
Jerry Broadus, PLS
Geometrix Surveying, Inc.
P.O. Box 249
Puyallup, WA. 98371