To kill the owl babies?

[Serin]

I've been on the go since 6am.
There are 3 of the cute little buggers, sat on the corner of our bedroom (dormer) window, cheeping away.
About once every 40 mins their DM brings them something to eat and they turn up the cheeping to full on party mode. It's like trying to sleep with a load of satanic chickens in the room.
AIBU to get the air rifle and shoot them dead? I could have them stuffed to make cute Christmas decorations or something, could send them to Chris Packham as a warning to other owls.

No owls here but I also have sodding seagulls at 4am followed by wood pigeons, one of whom has decided just to push through the dog flap and help himself to water from my dog's bowl. And poo all over the kitchen floor in the process...😡

We have very noisy magpies this year, they are at the back of the house so I don't hear at night, but I've had ds coming into my room twice this week at 4am to say he can't sleep because of the racket.

I will swap your owls for rooks

I am very jealous of anyone who has owls, I love them, I would happily swap them for the disgusting wo wooing pigeons that haunt my garden day and night. They blatantly shag on my fence in full view of my family, quite often having threesomes, have they no shame? The rest of the time they are making that annoying noise, pooing all over the garden or flapping their fat wings and dropping feathers everywhere., thy also sit there winding up my cats. I hate the bloody things.

There was a nest of rooks near us this year. The chicks (seems the wrong word for infant rooks, somehow) just sounded like scaled down adult rooks, which means like something from the pits of hell.

Get ear plugs. Leave them to fully fledge and then sort out the hole.

I shouldn't, as I suspect it gets tiresome very fast, but every time I watch this man and I laugh "Move to Brighton they said", "it's so relaxing they said"

Thanks all, O did manage to fall asleep eventually. We have lived in this house 24 years and they nest in an old tree in the garden every year. These have been the most unruly brood ever.
I do love them really and I deeply sympathise with those who have seagulls or toddlers or both!!.
I'm too old to remember the sleepless teething nights.
Tonight I will be prepared with ear plugs.

Here it starts way before the eggs are laid with daddy on the Velux window above my bed calling for his Mrs. Then the have date nights again above my bed. Then we have a break until the chicks come out. Hell in the countryside it is.

Buy ear plugs. Alternatively shoot yourself, then you won't hear them.

I opened this thinking you meant the book! I had to read that book and watch the DVD countless times when DS was younger .

Aw that's so cute about sleeping on their tummies!
We have bloody pigeons nesting on our scaffolding right outside our bedroom window... From 5am it's just "hoo hoo hoo hoo...." and it's driving me nuts!

Thank you lovely people..... thread to make us smile

Wear earplugs ,also deals with DH's snoring.

now wood pigeons really get on my nerves. the wood back of our house they make the most awful racket soon as it gets light. owls last thing at night l like it is kind of soothing which helps me sleep

The wood pigeons here use my conservatory roof as a slide. They start at the top, skitter down the slope and end up in the guttering. My cat goes ballistic!

You MONSTER!

Of course you can't shoot them.

Not with an air rifle - you need a machine gun.

The wood pigeons here use my conservatory roof as a slide. They start at the top, skitter down the slope and end up in the guttering. My cat goes ballistic!

Same here. They're heavy beggars, too! The THUMP they make when they crash onto the roof is horrific - I don't know how they haven't come through!

Can I add parakeets to the list?

I also thought you meant the book. DN was obsessed with it and reading it to her every time we saw her was bad enough - I really feel for parents who have to read it every night.

We don’t have owl babies, just magpies and an ASBO blackbird who both seem to think my balcony is theirs. I’m in central bloody London and am forever listening to them shouting, the bastards. Sometimes the magpies kill little birds for sport and leave them for me to clean up. Absolute arseholes, magpies.

@fodderbeet

Could be worse, some evil fucker told me words to go with the wood pigeon noise. I hear it all of the time, it drives me insane.

I also have issues with a particularly annoying song thrush that leaves too big a pause between certain parts of it's song.

‘My toe hurts, Betty! My toe hurts, Betty!’

My ex boyfriend mother had several cocktails that fidnt seem to be able to tell the time. They use to start at 2am every day and go on until 10. Considering we used up ulget home at 3 on a lot of nights they are damned lucky they survived. I'd take your owls any day. (It was in a country without glass in the windows too to make matters even worse!)

My DC are adopted and I couldn't read Owl Babies without welling up.
YABVVU!

Monster. You would deprive the world of these wholesome images!

My very many sympathies OP. We have a particularly nocturnal screechy barnowl (possibly a tawny) very near our house at the moment and it insufferable. Never thought of killing him though. The barking muntjac though..........

Round here the owls were screeching in the thunderstorm, and every time they moved they set off the house martens that are under our eves by the bedroom. They sound like ghosts moving in the roof.