Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos

The Northern Mockingbird, an Almanac

• Older folk will not say the Northern Mockingbird's name after dark, and have their reasons.
• Rain rides in behind the Northern Mockingbird when it flies low over Gallows Hill.
• Grandmothers in the back forty still tell that counting them past nine aloud is counting out your own good years.
• It's said the Northern Mockingbird's cry before noon foretells a letter, and after it, money owed you.
• The Society has lately concluded, to no small controversy, that its restlessness precedes a change of weather by a full day.

Folklore, invented on the spot — not to be believed.