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 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.
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.
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.
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?
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.