How to attract mockingbirds in northern states.

Greetings family and friends! I just saw some mockingbirds at my community farm recently. It was a curious sight. Never seen them this far north before. If they come back year after year, then how we draw mockingbirds to our backyards and community areas to ensure enjoyment for all? It should be a classic sight in this temperate climate as it get warmer. Please share me some stuff in the forum if you all have anything. Take care!

They like berries. Especially red ones. So if you plant lots of things that have red berries, that gives you attraction points. They also like music.

I had a roommate many years ago who is a guitarist. During a wet winter (I think it was '93) all of my rain barrels and buckets were full. One day I found a half drowned mockingbird in a bucket of cold water. I scooped him out, brought him inside, wrapped him in a towel and put him in the "sun room" upstairs. I let Don know that when he went in to practice his classical guitar the next morning that he would encounter either a feathered corpse in a towel or a bird wanting to escape.

The bird made it through the night, and although he was given an open window he chose to stay in the room and listen to the music before he took off. About a week later he flew overhead and I swear he nailed the opening phrase of Bach's Lute Suite in E.

Great compassion for birds! The poor thing could've drowned to death in a barrel. How that happened?

No idea. I had open tops on several of them that winter and this was the only casualty...most likely an accident or maybe just a clumsy bird.

Besides red berries mockingbirds like bugs.

If you pick bugs off your plants put them somewhere that the mockingbird can find them.

Greetings Anne! I wanna find out if mockingbirds use winterberries or any other late season berry bearing plants up north. Could they also eat hawthorn, dogwood or crabapple for winter food as well as  sunflowers and others? When do mockingbirds mate?