# I feel like such a grouch, but I wish the spring birdies would shut up already **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011 "2010-04-22T17:47:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011/21 "2010-04-23T04:20:11Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > The bird is going on and on and on because he’s horny and wants some tail. I’d suggest getting him a girlfriend, but some species also carry on while mating: “I"m getting some! I’m getting some!” > > And what **Gleena** said about parrots? Word. I have three of them in the house, it’s spring, and they all want to get laid. Unfortunately for them, no females of their species is available in this household, nor will be. > > I bought ear plugs. Word, indeed. These are wild, though, and I’d say there’s 20 or so lorikeets in the tree at any given time, and although sometimes we get one or two 'toos we sometimes get them in dozens. I’ve had pet parrots. My Red Lored made heaps of noise. These cockatoos are…horrifically loud. And I’m in the city, I’d hate to think what it’s like when you get hundreds of them, like a huge parrot plague. The lorrikeets are not that loud, but they last longer and start earlier. I’d still totally have one as a pet though. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011/22 "2010-04-23T04:36:11Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > Word, indeed. These are wild, though, and I’d say there’s 20 or so lorikeets in the tree at any given time, and although sometimes we get one or two 'toos we sometimes get them in dozens. > > I’ve had pet parrots. My Red Lored made heaps of noise. These cockatoos are…horrifically loud. And I’m in the city, I’d hate to think what it’s like when you get hundreds of them, like a huge parrot plague. The lorrikeets are not that loud, but they last longer and start earlier. > > I’d still totally have one as a pet though. You have wild cockatoos?? The big white guys?? ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011/23 "2010-04-23T05:10:22Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > You have wild cockatoos?? The big white guys?? Yeah, come get them. They are incredibly destructive, and loud. I used to love them when I lived in the US, but geez… I saw some on my way in to work this morning, in fact. If I lived out bush, I’d see them in huge flocks. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011/24 "2010-04-23T05:27:10Z")
I can empathize, but thankfully not this year. . . yet. And hopefully not at all. :crossing fingers: But one year, I had a really LOUD bird right outside my window that would get me up all the time. It was screeching really loudly. And then there was a nest with baby birds that made the same sound but just a higher pitch. They ran around for months while they grew up. Apparently, they couldn’t fly for several months. They sure could screech loudly though. It was a pretty bad season to get a restful sleep in the mornings. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011/25 "2010-04-23T05:59:48Z")
I’m with you **OpalCat** , I thought the colorful tweet tweet’n was nice to wake up to lately, until murders of crows decided to join in the chorus in a tree next to my bedroom window, they probably did it just to get me back though, I snore like boat horn. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011/26 "2010-04-23T09:25:37Z")
Oh man I gotta get rid of those bloody pigeons in my roof. They make their orgasmic cooing noises all day I can’t stand it. I keep spraying with the hose and there’s one bugger that just won’t come out of there so I can nail the hole in the roof shut. The dumb idiots keep laying eggs and of course they just roll out into the driveway to destruction. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011/27 "2010-04-23T14:29:24Z")
I’m so glad to hear that I’m not alone in being annoyed with the cute iconic spring birdies. I was feeling like I must be such a … a… what’s the female version of a curmudgeon? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011/28 "2010-04-23T14:45:21Z")
I had a robin alarm clock that outside my bedroom window for several years. It went off at 4:45AM–quite annoying, to say the least. (especially since I sleep with my window open). The robin decided to nest someplace else last year, much to my relief. This year, however, I have a new avian wake up call: some finches (sparrows?) moved in where the robin used to live. Interestingly enough, they seem to get up a little later–they start cheeping around 5:15 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011/29 "2010-04-23T15:06:53Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > My one bird was a morning dove. In the interest of fighting ignorance and all: [_mourning_ dove](http://www.birds.cornell.edu/BOW/moudov/). ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011/30 "2010-04-23T20:14:19Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > That One Bird outside our house has this two=note thing: > > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > Tee-WHOO > > Until I am ready to go out there with a BB gun. It is very high-pitched and piercing. And I am honestly not sure if it’s more annoying when he does it in a pattern or when he breaks the pattern. > > ETA: I think it might be a catbird. Could it be a Blue Jay? They’re sort of annoying: [http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/sounds/99sounds/bluejay1.au](http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/sounds/99sounds/bluejay1.au) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-like-such-a-grouch-but-i-wish-the-spring-birdies-would-shut-up-already/537011.md?page=1)