Interested? I very much look forward to talking with you. I will be talking to several realtors but thought you would like first shot at it. Well, life is what it is, and it’s time to sell my mom’s house. Don’t stop sending them, I read every one. I continue to think about you because of those damn annoying monthly newsletters. Hi Marguerite, You were our realtor when we bought our home in Penryn about 15 years ago. Now in all honesty, I have missed a few months over the years and have been late on occasion too.īut if you remember the client that I have been talking about the last few days in my emails? This was his recent email to me that started that chain of events: I have literally mailed to my database EVERY MONTH for over 20 years. I will tell you that this has truly been a HUGE part of my success. What is most important is that you MAIL yes I said good ole fashion SNAIL MAIL… NOT EMAIL… something every month! They don’t have to be fancy or perfect English or formatted correctly… just like this email.īut here is the real point. I have written about my kids (boys give you tons of great material), my grandparents, being an empty nester and much more. I write about whatever happens to be going on in my life.
We used to laugh about it every year but always read every bit of it, mostly I guess because we all have that nosy side to us that wants a peek into other people’s lives.Īnd frankly it is more exciting than boring newsletters about real estate statistics or sports schedules (well maybe some people like those sports schedules. The kind that had all the gossip in it about all your cousins or family friends that you don’t remember? You know the ones that you used to get from your Grandma or Aunt Sally would send every year at Christmas. But what we don’t get much of anymore are personal cards and letters. “If anybody knows of a single female mockingbird who is looking for a great singing companion, we definitely have someone for you.”ĭo you have your own burning questions about life in Southern California you want a reporter to answer? Look for the Ask a question box on you are anything like me you get a ton of email and good ole junk snail mail. “We've debated seeing if there's a way to get Tinder for birds, just so we can help him,” she says. He urges compassion: “When you're woken up in the middle of the night, and you might be kind of annoyed,” he said, “think of the lonely plight of the male mockingbird.”ĭos Santos and her neighbors are way ahead of him. Unfortunately for Dos Santos and her neighbors, variation is what makes the mating call attractive to the opposite sex, which means the birdsong will be unpredictable.Īnd McCormack says the bird won’t let up until it finds love. It’s mockingbird mating season, and the birds who chirp at night tend to be males that are single and ready to mingle. McCormack says it probably won’t stop anytime soon. Hearing a bird do it two octaves higher is not fun at all. The poet Mary Oliver kinda nailed the listening experience as “neither lilting nor lovely,” and Dos Santos agrees those imitations can be pretty brutal: car alarms are already really annoying in the middle of the night. McCormack says you can identify the Northern Mockingbird by its repeated phrases - the bird will sing something three or four times, and then will move onto a different sound. “In the early 1900s, they were actually caught and kept as pets because people considered their song beautiful and interesting.”
However, McCormack notes, the Northern mockingbird used to be fairly rare.
Despite the “northern” designation, the species is found throughout the entire southern part of the United States. McCormack says the Northern Mockingbird is very common in L.A. “And the answer is, almost invariably, a mockingbird.” “It’s a question that comes in pretty often: ‘what is that bird that's keeping me up at night singing outside of my window?’” said McCormack. So we asked John McCormack, director of the Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College. In search of answers, she reached out to LAist to identify the mystery bird. And although her neighbors can commiserate (Dos Santos has found some company in the “Bad and Loud Bird Group: Official” page on Nextdoor), she hasn’t found a solution. Dos Santos has tried everything - fans, humidifiers, earplugs - but nothing works.
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