I like birds as well as most people. Especially beautiful ones who will let me take a picture of them. BUT NOT at 4 AM. This morning, just as the sky was turning light a small baby sparrow set in the eaves over the bedroom window. He was practicing his scales. He sang the same five or six notes over and over and over until I wanted to go throw something at him. dr said, when I told him who slept through it, that it reminded him of the children's book called, "The Baby Bebee Bird." It is one of my favorites and I wish I had a copy of it. I used to read it at story hour every few weeks. This little bird lived in a zoo and it was awake at night and sang it's heart out because it liked its new home. It sang bebee, bebee, bebebebebee, bebebebebe, bebee, bebee all night long and all the other zoo animals couldn't sleep so during the day when the zoo was open, the animals were asleep and the people were very upset.It is funny and I could get all the kids to imitating it and we roused the whole library. Dooley
I know what you mean Dooley by getting woken up by birds early in the morning. It's rooks around here and their harsh calls and their claws running about on the roof wake me up every day. Now why can't it be song thrushes and blackbirds as their songs as very pleasant to listen to?
I hear lots of mourning doves in the a.m. Its not so bad either. I remember when we first moved to this house tho... it was "What the heck is all THAT?" The only bird that wakes me too early, and rather unpleasantly now is a very busy woodpecker we have in the woods.
I know what you mean about the woodpeckers do you have the pleated woodpecker? I am not sure if thats the correct spelling. That is one big bird. I tell the kids the pterodactyl was here today. Ha Kimmie
Dooley,whatever you do, don`t throw anything, the last time i did that (at a starling) I broke the bedroom window, and it wasn`t a big stone
Hey Dooley I know what you mean, I use to leave way out in the country and there was a whip-poor-whil that sang all night I wanted to kill that bird, and I love birds. I'm trying to fill my yard with stuff to attract them. Some are quite irritating though.
Yeah, just my luck I'd break a window, too. I didn't really mean to throw anything at it. I like birds, just not baby ones learning scales at 4 in the morning. Dooley
Dooley, We have a friend Judy from the Phoenix area, that comes to visit us each year. She uses a machine at night, that creates background noise to drown out other noises that may disturb her. I remember waking up to the sound of ocean surf one morning. Or, lay a toy rubber snake along the roof where the bird perches. Tom
