To open my bedroom window at 3am and scream Fuck Off at a cuckoo?

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Three am, and it's cuckoo, cuckoo. Bastarding bird looking for a mate with which to produce a satanic love child.
It's either that or burn the tree down.

Maybe it thought if it started calling really, really early it would be ahead of the game and find itself a mate before all the other birds were up and about.

Maybe it's a really unattractive cuckoo and has to work extra hard to find someone.

Can't stand the bird noise when trying to sleep. Ok during the day. Inconsiderate twits.

I am sure the birds are louder this year!! Live in a quiet road so although there is less traffic, l don't think it is that!

Heard a noise from ds's bedroom early this morning . Found this little fellow tootling away.

Didn't post picture dammit

OP could you buy it a watch and some lynx?

Omg glad i'm not the only one. Wd have had a thrush(?) outside our house yestrday afternoon and its so noisy. Never shut up until 10pm. It started again at 5am and was still going when i left the house at 9.45am. Got back at 12.30 and luckily its gone. We laugh about it but was starting to get really annoying as its so out of tune and sounds like a squeezy toy. The other birds sound lovely, just not this one.

Do you not speak cuckoo? I don't see why you can't just make the poor thing a cup of coffee 🤷‍♀️ what kind of b&b are you running in that tree of yours?

I am often awake at odd times at the moment (peri-menopauseal). I too heard a cuckoo at around 3am just over a week ago.

I felt rather lucky, I must admit. Although I do understand why it could be annoying. I've rarely heard them before. They are getting increasingly rare now, and this one had a particularly lovely and musical tone.

@Blingloving I think it might be a blue-tit definitely a tit of some sort I hear it in the early hours, and also in the garden later and narrowed it down to that. Just as I'm dropping back off to sleep the little fucker starts again like a little alarm clock

I love birdsong - especially cuckoos and owls.

I haven't heard a cuckoo for years. We used to have a local one, then it obviously died and that was that. So I envy you your cuckoo as they are increasingly rare and soon we won't hear them at all.

We have owls in the trees in our garden - I feel your pain!

I haven't hears a cuckoo in years! You are so lucky, they only stay in this country for about 2 months and are becoming very rare.

I too have a fucking 3am cuckoo. Yes I know they're rare and lovely etc. But why do they have to start way before any of the other birds?!?! And it's so loud it sounds like it sitting on my frigging foot. He sings ALL DAY as well. Please find a mate and FUCK OFF.

Well I am doubly blessed, another Cuckoo has started up and they are happily cuckooing away in my garden. Fingers crossed for a happy union and a peaceful nights sleep

I hate to break it to you but that's 2 competing makes you've got. Females don't say cuckoo. So you will he woken at 3am by BOTH of them. 😂😂😂😂

YANBU - for the last 11 years we've had two males visiting the area and they have some ferocious cuckooing competitions across the valley, usually starting around 4.30am and going on for about eight weeks. We're currently in week 6 and I've reached the point of muttered threats about shotguns.

And yes, as Bigus says, that's two males you've got. That's why the rhyme says 'In June he changes his tune' - June is when the females turn up and they have a different song.

A fox was screaming here at about the same time this morning. I didn't get up and shout at it, but I should have!

I hate to break it to you but that's 2 competing makes you've got. Females don't say cuckoo. So you will he woken at 3am by BOTH of them.

Bastards! :Fires up the chainsaw:

I didn't know girl cuckoos didn't cuckoo every day is a school day men tho noisy buggers

Go out into your back garden and repeatedly shout out 'Ballsack'.
That works better.

So long as you’re not stood naked at the window displaying yourself to neighbours, screaming at a pigeon —owl— then you’re fine...

I’m the same. We have owls who visit every bloody night and sit in the tree outside the window. There are 3 types (my nocturnal googling has identified them by sound 🙄) and I can’t stand them. They take turns. I have been known to go and shine a torch right at them to try and train them that if they hoot hoot here they get a massive blast of light right in their big owly eyes.