There’s a bird which likes to start singing around 4:00 am, outside my bedroom window. Does anyone know any good ways to quiet his ass up? I’m not quite to the point of throwing firecrackers at him, or shooting at him with a BB gun, but I’m getting close!
Water, administered with a garden hose. MIght take a few nights, but, hey, you’re up anyway. Right?
What ,it’s not scared of a barking spider?
Try a plastic owl, say 12-16" high, but take it inside every day when you do get up, so the bird doesn’t wise up too fast. And when you put it out in the evening put it in a different place.
It’s probably a male mockingbird that has not found a mate yet. Take pity on him. Put yourself in his claws.
I had a mockingbird do this years ago, but I just decided that that is Nature. Live and let live.
How about getting a white noise generator or something similar to drown the noise out yet still let you sleep?
Or earplugs?
BB Gun works almost every time… Fun too, Especially when your pissed in the morning and haven’t yet had a smoke. 
lol
Subject, of course, to local laws about BB gun usage and national laws about which birds are legal to shoot.
I’ll second the motion that it is a mockingbird. Mine was, years ago.
Does this mean that once he finds a mate, he no longer has anything to say or can he just not get a word in edgewise from that day forward?/
Well, obviously you were being funny, Sam, but male birds sing in the spring for two reasons: to show their territory and to display for a future mate. Once a mate is found, a male bird will sing only to show its territory. However, the mockingbird is the only song bird that will sing at night, and it will only do so if it’s still searching. They have been know, however, to sing at 4AM to disturb a Barking Spider.
Mine sang at 3AM, but as I said, that’s Nature. If I were out camping, I’d hear the music of Nature all night long. Music to my ears. It’s just a frame of mind. If you think it’s disturbing, it will be disturbing. If you think, “Oh, how nice. A beautiful bird is singing its lonesome refrain” then it will be beautiful music.
Cool, barbitu8…
Could you come over to my house and tell the rooster that lives in my neighborhood, please?
OOPS - You said SONG bird. Never mind. But still, come tell that damn rooster. Please. Arka-arka-ROOOOO! All night long.
Pass the Buffalo sauce…
I found several sites that say mockingbirds do this, but also found this :
Grackles, jays, limpkins, chuckwill’s widows, owls and crows are not songbirds. That leaves the titmouse, Carolina wren (?), and cardinal. Wrens are questionably songbirds, but the Carolina wren does have a nice song. Regardless, I have never heard a cardinal, wren, or titmouse sing at night.
What sort of Barking Spider (aka bird-eating spider) are you?
“The Bird Eating Spider is one of Australia’s largest spiders. It is also known as the Barking Spider or Whistling Spider … Bird Eating Spiders kill their prey by pouncing on it and injecting venom”
So get out there and pounce!
Really.:rolleyes:
And you are right about limpkins, chuck-will’s widows and owls and wrong about grackles, jays and crows- they are in the order passeriformes.
It’s kinda hard to NOT recognize a mockingbird’s repetoire. If your bird has 5-20 different calls he’s using, it’s a mockingbird.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s looking for a mate. This bird just showed up around 2 weeks ago, likes to perch in a dead tree around 15 feet from my bedroom window, and starts singing around 4 AM. Once he even started singing around 2AM. His song contains around 10-15 different noises.
It doesn’t really bother me that much, I’m a heavy sleeper. But the sound wakes my wife up and then she in turn wakes me up.
“Songbird” can mean a bird with a musical song, but it is also sometimes used to refer to all perching birds (passerines, or Order Passeriformes). According to the latter meaning, grackles, jays, wrens and crows are songbirds. Also note that “song” has a technical ornithological meaning, by which even unmusical species such as crows may be said to have one.
Many passerines sing at night (notably the Nightingale in Europe), but the most common one that does so in most of the US is the Mockingbird. Here in Panama Clay-colored Robins start singing about 2 AM during the breeding season.
“Songbird” can mean a bird with a musical song, but it is also sometimes used to refer to all perching birds (passerines, or Order Passeriformes). According to the latter meaning, grackles, jays, wrens and crows are songbirds. Also note that “song” has a technical ornithological meaning, by which even unmusical species such as crows may be said to have one.
Many passerines sing at night (notably the Nightingale in Europe), but the most common one that does so in most of the US is the Mockingbird. Here in Panama Clay-colored Robins start singing about 2 AM during the breeding season.
Stop returning her phone calls.
What?