To think NO blackbird should be THAT happy at 4am

[Kimi]

Dawn chorus, more like the royal philharmonic outside the window......

[gingernutlover]

want to borrow an air rifle?

[differentID]

of course you are being very unreasonable, Kimi. I love the dawn chorus!

[GodzillasBumcheek]

Blackbird song is lovely.

YABVVU

Buy some earplugs (or a very very small roll of duct tape)!

[thumbwitch]

• ahh, if you were a blackbird and it was a lovely sunny day and the sun had just come up - you'd sing like a wotsit as well, you know you would!

YABU, grumpy ol' Kimi!

[dawntigga]

YANBU in the least! I'm gutted I'm not allowed to use my bow on the noisy blighters!



dxx

[seeker]

Think yourself lucky - we've got a manically cheerful cuckoo. We call him Derek, and imagine him going to parties in novelty ties and musical socks.

[stealthsquiggle]

YANB(V)U to wish they would go and be cheerful somewhere else. I have to admit my main reaction when baby sparrows start yelling for their breakfast about 6" from our bedroom window is one of fellow feeling for the parents (then I get up and shut the window and go back to sleep )

[Doodle2u]

Will have to agree with OP on this one. We've got chickens and they're 10 times worse and as for the local Wood Pigeon population - what I'd give for a one cannon salute to scare the little critters off once and for all!

[thumbwitch]

ahh now, if it were chickens I'd be agreeing with the OP, no problem. Ditto woodpigeons - I used to have one of them sitting on my chimney pot and yelling down it at all hours - I yelled back a few times!

[frostyfingers]

We have bats rustling about half the night, and then the *** sparrows start line dancing on the gutter above my bedroom window at 3.30am, followed by the rest of them.

I hate house sparrows, they've nicked all the house martins nests, they're terribly bad at housework - all sorts of bits of bedding hanging down from the stolen nests, and then because they're too heavy for the house martin nests the bottoms fall out as the babies get bigger and their corpses are on the floor - yuk, yuk. I've put boxes up for house martins and sparrows and they're both ignoring them.

[seeker]

Derek the cuckoo cuckooes at random times during the day as well - he'll do one - then wait, then a group, then another one......I'm lying in bed twitching while I wait for the next cuck!

[stealthsquiggle]

seeker he's threatened - you are supposed to appreciate his being around .

[seeker]

so bloody right he's threatened........!

[Kimi]

Bow and arrow might do the trick, of maybe I could throw the cat at it

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

I'll lend you our cats for a bit, they've run out of wildlife to decimate round our way.

[MarmadukeScarlet]

Well I've got a mad woodpecker. I live in an oast house, above my bedroom is the pointy roof bit leading to the cowl like this

From 4 am every morning the woodpecker tried to peck his way through the top of the cowl, luckily for me it is made of plastic so he cannot get through, unluckily it sounds like a machine gun and echoes nicely down through the attic spack like a loudhaler.

Earplugs anyone??

[golgi]

Something sits outside my window and goes
CHEEEEP

CHEEEEEEEEEEEP

CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

then stops just long enough for me to think "phew, it's finished", then starts up again.

I think I might get a red kite to sit on the chimney.

Stayed in a caravan last weekend - the little beasts were tap-dancing on the roof from first light.

[GrimmaTheNome]

First its the blackbirds, then the woodpigeons take over. I awoke the other morning thinking that a couple of blokes were talking loudly outside my bedroom window, but it was the pigeons being peculiarly chatty.

And the occasional pheasant or partridge squawk thrown in for good measure.

I'm just glad we don't have any peacocks nearby!

(but I'm a bit sorry the tawny owl seems to have gone - that was nice and at the right end of the day.)

[giraffesCantRunA10k]

YABU - be thankful its not giant killer "sea" gulls

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

"Think yourself lucky - we've got a manically cheerful cuckoo. We call him Derek, and imagine him going to parties in novelty ties and musical socks"

[knockedgymnast]

kimi

When we had an 'earth-quake' (by earthquake's standards, it was nothing major) down here, the birds all started singing at midnight. Now that was scary. You could tell that they were in distress and I wondered whether it was a warning.

Something out of a Hitchcock thriller, me thinks...

Give me a dawn chorus anyday!!

[weblette]

Thanks to ds3's crap sleeping I can confirm that 3.45am is actually the preferred start time for Mr Bloody Chirpy Blackbird round here.

As for Mr Ruddy Randy Wood Pigeon at 3.50.... aaaaaaaaaargh. I may take to throwing things at the roof.

[Kimi]

Ok it is war....3 frigging 30 this morning it starts....

Right can;t talk now going to superglue the bird table and once I have it stuck and captive I shall blast the little sod with cat stevens, pussycat dolls and the likes.

/gets pot of glue and storms in to garden in sleep deprived rage!!!!!!!

[cocolepew]

YANBU we have one too, he's such a show-off.