Bird Watching: can anybody identify this bird?, 1 by shortleaf

shortleaf wrote:
Lost its tail hehe! I remember once when I was a kid there was a chicken contest down the street and I spray painted my chicken pink! The judges looked pretty closely at it, but I'm quite sure they knew there isn't any pink chickens..lol
Maybe somebody painted this bird's tail white to throw folks off! : )
I got some more photos of it today, one with that Downy Woodpecker looking on, while perched on a Japanese Maple, I guess waiting for its turn.
That Mockingbird is quite the regular now, I suppose it knows where to get food from now.
I always did like the Mockingbirds.
Will