to want my neighbours to quieten down their parrot?

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My neighbours have a pet parrot (or some other large bird in a cage). Their back door is pretty much constantly open. Through the day, whether I'm in or out, it's fine, annoying, but I've always put up with it. However right now the bird is singing to itself and it has been for around an hour. It's woken my 5yo twice, he has school tomorrow and I have lectures all day so we have to be up and about early. AIBU to report it? How do I go about this? I can report to council but it seems like that's if there's a constant issue which there usually isn't, in fact in the 3 years I've lived here I've never heard it go on for this long this late. Can I call 101? Would they do anything? I feel like a dick but I can't sleep because of it and it's really loud! AIBU to be annoyed and want it to shut up 

In our area 11.00pm is the cut off for noise like music and machinery. I’m assuming parrots are included.

Try ringing them to ask.

Not sure how you can shut it up. Not all of them can cope being covered up. Why dont you ask them if they could use a cover for the cage as the sound is travelling?

If you rang 101 about a parrot then you could end up on one of those programs.

I think it is here too. I don't want them to laugh at me and think I'm taking the piss...

Oh just noticed that you haven’t spoken to neighnours yet. They would be my first action. Unless you have cause not to want to go round?

Is their door open now?

It’s just like a dog barking though isn’t it?

If their back door is open are they still up? Could you ask them to close it?

I suppose it's probably difficult to force it to shush, yes. I don't know anything about pet birds but I do think it's unreasonable for them to have their doors and windows open at this time if it's singing at the top of its voice (squawk?). Our houses are terraced so we are very very close to them. I don't have my windows open either.

I don't really have any reason not to go round other than I'm quite a young mum and it's just me and my 5yo at home. I'm not scared of them as such but I do read some of the horrific neighbour stories on here and not want to piss them off! It's an older man and woman.

I hate birds kept in cages. I’m not sure 101 is the right call.

How long do parrots live for? When do they sleep? Maybe they can bring forward bedtime [no idea if even possible]

I’m sorry, this doesn’t help, but im curious. What does the parrot say?

Tricky. It’s a bit like people who play loud music with their door or windows open. Maybe leave it for tonight and mention it tomorrow morning?

(Luckily?) it doesn't say words, it just tweets and squawks a lot. Usually during the day it sounds like some kind of alarm going off constantly, like a car or burglar alarm. So it must have heard something similar to that that it mimics!

You can’t really phone 101 for something like this without at least having tried knocking on their door.
Next step would be council in the morning but you must talk to them first.

That parrot should be asleep with the light off at this time of night. They need 10 to 12 hours sleep at night.

I didn’t mean ring 101. There’s a dedicated noise helpline

Find yours here

www.gov.uk/report-noise-pollution-to-council

They’ll know what to do.

Maybe Polly can't tell the time?

I guess I'll leave it for tonight. Definitely not going to knock at this time, and can't leave dc in house alone even if I did feel comfortable doing so. I'll fill in the council website form and hope they shut their door soon and dc doesn't wake again...

Whe I put my postcode in that link it takes me to the out of hours noise helpline number in my borough

Thank you roses! No, it seems not, Polly is only good at making you think somebody is breaking into your car at 6am

I think you should teach it some salty phrases!

Ah, with mine it only brings me to the form I mentioned before so I'm assuming my council doesn't have an out of hours service or phone line. I wonder if they will even be interested since this isn't a nightly occurrence yet

"How long do parrots live for?"

Up to 70 years depending on the type. My dad was left a 30 year old Macaw 26 years ago and he's worried about who he is going to leave it to if it out lives him.

I don't think it's reasonable to call council/ police seeing as it's the first time, definitely try and speak to your neighbours first even if just a note through the door

I only meant that they should move it into a dark room and let it sleep, poor thing.

My parents have an African grey parrot and there's not really much they can do to keep him quiet. Unfortunately for them he does talk, well mimics things he's heard like 'Alexa play Spotify' and 'Daniel brush your teeth' all funny until he's repeating them continuously at 4am, especially annoying is the smoke alarm. They do cover his cage but if the mood takes him then that's unfortunate. He can live up to 60ish years, I've told them I don't want him when they die so they best make sure they have arrangements put in place.

Hope you get peace soon OP.

Parrots will roost & sleep in the dark generally. I have some noisy parrots but they are in the garden and I try not to let them out until 9 or so and put them in around 5-6 when they have their food and then lights off after a couple of hours (I am paranoid about offending neighbours). In your case there are easy steps your neighbour can take - There is no reason a bird should be noisy at that time. It can be difficult to quiet them during the day but at least they should be able to reduce the volume to zero for this kind of unsociable hour ( unlike a barking dog!). I think the best plan is to go and speak with them and ask if there is anything they could do to help - move the bird to a different room / non adjoining wall, keep door shut/ cover it at a certain time etc. I would hope if a neighbour had an issue they would come and see me as a first thing to do . Going straight to the council without a conversation would likely get people’s back up unnecessarily.