BIRDS!!!

[propita]

I love the spring, especially hear in Fresno where everything turns green. And I love birds, so I can't be too upset to hear them.

But, man! I don't need an alarm clock! They wake me up between 5:45 and 6:30 every morning with their twittering. There are so many outside in the trees. I have to be real sleepy to not have them wake me up. Especially one, who comes by every few days and just repeats his call for about 5 minutes or so. No way to ignore that for me.

I can't get mad, though. How can one be angry at "twitter, twitter, cheep cheep"? They're just facing the new day. So it's nice, but boy, they get loud.

If Hubby notices, he doesn't bother. He's slept through earthquakes.

 

[Beagleman]

I know what you mean. This year it's extreme arround here, those feathery bastards start twittering at around 2am, I mean what the hell?! Birds at night? I need sleep, why don't they? Makes me long for bats...

 

[Zulu Romeo]

If only the birds started using Facebook instead of Twitter...

 

[John Picard]

I love the spring, especially hear in Fresno where everything turns green. And I love birds, so I can't be too upset to hear them.

But, man! I don't need an alarm clock! They wake me up between 5:45 and 6:30 every morning with their twittering. There are so many outside in the trees. I have to be real sleepy to not have them wake me up. Especially one, who comes by every few days and just repeats his call for about 5 minutes or so. No way to ignore that for me.

I can't get mad, though. How can one be angry at "twitter, twitter, cheep cheep"? They're just facing the new day. So it's nice, but boy, they get loud.

If Hubby notices, he doesn't bother. He's slept through earthquakes.

I know it's the end of Spring/start of Summer when the Whip-poor-wills are singing. It seems so odd to hear them at dark, during the first few evenings.

 

[greenguy]

Not even the whip-poor-wills. When I lived in California, there were these awful bluebirds/bluejay kind of birds that would squawk really loudly and divebomb you from bushes. It was irritating and they would always wake me up, too.

 

[melancholymecha]

yesterday walking home I saw two shrikes harrassing a squirrel that was trying to get to their nest.

two baby ringneck doves are about to fledge in a palm tree in front of my yard.

 

[M'Sharak]

Not even the whip-poor-wills. When I lived in California, there were these awful bluebirds/bluejay kind of birds that would squawk really loudly and divebomb you from bushes. It was irritating and they would always wake me up, too.

That sounds like a Steller's jay, or possibly a scrub jay, depending on where you were. Mockingbirds will also do that, especially the "swooping on people" part during nesting season.

 

[scotpens]

. . . When I lived in California, there were these awful bluebirds/bluejay kind of birds that would squawk really loudly and divebomb you from bushes. It was irritating and they would always wake me up, too.

Bluejays can get quite aggressive when they're protecting their eggs or their hatchlings. A few years ago, there was a nesting pair of jays in the yard next door, and they would dive-bomb my cat whenever she got a little too close. They scared the crap out of that poor cat.

During the spring months, I'm often awakened in the pre-dawn hours by birds -- not just the pleasant twittering of songbirds, but the VERY loud yapping of crows. Dozens of the big black feathered fuckers. That's when it's time to stick in the earplugs.

 

[Cornholio]

the only birds that I really like are birds of prey. the rest of 'em are just too damn noisy.

 

[propita]

Pasadena (CA) is one of the areas that has a flock of parrots. Get 30 of them in a tree and they are LOUD!

The peacocks from the nearby Arboretum would come to my Mom's street. Beautiful birds but noisy--and stupid! They stand in the street, so you stop your car. When you take your foot off the gas to go around them, they walk back to be in front of your car again. And again. And again.

 

[auntiehill]

A decent pair of ear plugs while I sleep makes me appreciate the lovely birdies around here all the more.

 

[Canadave]

The bedroom window in my old apartment used to open right next to a tree, so yeah, that could get rather loud in the early morning. In my current place, though, I don't really notice the birds quite as much.

Oh, and for what it's worth, my favourite bird song, by far, is that of the Common Loon.

 

[John Picard]

^^ I'll see your loon and raise you, the Whippoorwill.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXnnfg1CepE[/yt]

 

[Canadave]

^ The whip-poor-will is cool and all, but I'm afraid it's got nothing on the loon.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3G9b6j3nCA&feature=related[/yt]

 

[John Picard]

^^ Yepper. The Loon Concert is very beautiful. If Canada didn't get so damned cold in the winter, I could handle retiring there.

 

[scotpens]

Oh, and for what it's worth, my favourite bird song, by far, is that of the Common Loon.

Then you've come to the right place!

 

[Canadave]

^^ Yepper. The Loon Concert is very beautiful. If Canada didn't get so damned cold in the winter, I could handle retiring there.

Not all of the country does, parts of British Columbia have quite mild winters. Victoria, for instance, has a borderline Mediterranean climate, and both Kamloops and Kelowna are reasonably warm. So's Vancouver, for that matter, but you have to really like rain.

 

[John Picard]

^^ Yepper. The Loon Concert is very beautiful. If Canada didn't get so damned cold in the winter, I could handle retiring there.

Not all of the country does, parts of British Columbia have quite mild winters. Victoria, for instance, has a borderline Mediterranean climate, and both Kamloops and Kelowna are reasonably warm. So's Vancouver, for that matter, but you have to really like rain.

I spent over a year in Bremerton and we went to Vancouver for a weekend. Talk about beauty.

 

[Kestra]

You should consider getting a cat.

 

[propita]

You should consider getting a cat.

Me?

Plenty of neighborhood cats. They lay about and start at you, as if wondering why you are on their street.