"Birds of a Feather Flock Together"?

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, there is a stand of trees along the San Antonio River Mission Reach not far downstream from the U.S. 90 bridge where birds of many kinds tend to congregate. To the left of the Red-tailed Hawk and below it on the same snag, sat a Northern Mockingbird. I'm still not quite sure what to make of this coincidental pair of "birds of prey":

If you think a Mockingbird (The Official State Bird of Texas) is NOT a bird of prey, you've likely never seen one swoop down and grab an insect off the ground, not to mention seen one attack a larger animal (including people) that it felt was threatening its territory.

This set of photographs was taken along the San Antonio River Mission Reach on Wednesday, December 4, 2013.