Answer to the Riddle

   We found the source of the Mockingbird's aggression. It wasn't the ripening figs after all. I spotted a mocker with a worm in its beak standing on an azalea bush near my car. I stepped back and watched as it jumped down into the azalea bush and fed the worm to a chick hidden in the bush. I could bearly see the squirming chick through the azalea blossoms. What a lovely resting place, surrounded by flowers ! The mockingbirds have been protecting a fledgeling.

Robert