I like the sound of a bird singing. I do NOT like the sound of a bird singing at 2 o’clock in the morning.
I hear it every night – a demented, nocturnal, insomniac mockingbird that starts screeching about 2 a.m. and doesn’t shut up until sunup. THEN, when the opportunity for sleep has vanished, the feathery fiend stops squawking.
I’m tempted to go outside with a baseball bat and beat the trunk of the tree it perches in, but I don’t have a baseball bat and I’m not sure beating the poor tree would cause the bird to close its trap. I’d love to throw a bucket of water on the loudmouth, but that would require being above the tree, not below it.
So how, short of opening fire with an Uzi, do I get this stupid bird to shut up? Please. Leave a comment. My sleep-deprived sanity begs you.
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If water seems to be the solution, use a garden hose with a nozzle on the end. Turn on hose bib, aim nozzle toward bird, douse bird. Take care that overspray does not affect any large, potentially angry neighbor. You probably can’t outrun said neighbor. Alternatively, meow very loudly and long. Either the bird will desist, or neighbor will bring out his own Uzi and solve the problem for you.
Can you come over and spray the darn thing for me? I don’t have a hose.
I’ve got one you can use, if you can come by and pick it up. I might even rent you a nozzle. However, if you don’t have a hose in NW Florida, I wonder if you even know what a hose bib is, so I am a bit concerned that you need a training session on use of all this technical equipment. I know you know a lot about digital, but I’m not sure about your qualifications with analog.
Hose bib? What’s that?
Assuming you really don’t know and I’m being set up for a joke, it’s a cloth tied around the hose to prevent lobster butter from dripping.
And if you don’t want to accept that, I’ll say it’s the outside faucet.
Put your alarm clock as loud as it will go, then put in those soft ear plugs. Same prob here and this is the best solution we’ve found so far…
Really? The alarm clock makes ‘em shut up?
If a bird truly “signs” would you really hear him? Probably just the sound of the birds feet “signing”.
Ear plugs Del….. Ear plugs.
Dang. I thought I fixed all those.
Chainsaw.
Ha ha.
Find a female mocking bird to keep him occupied that is what he whats.
Close the window???
“Can you come over and spray the darn thing for me? I don’t have a hose.”
Sure you do Del. Look down.
I recommend you do what that crazy guy who puts up signs in his empty lot did when he was being persecuted by birds a couple of years ago: call the police!
It’s obviously a conspiracy, and now you’re being targeted by the same evil bird forces.
Hush little baby, don’t say a word. Mama’s gonna buy you a mockingbird.
Del,
Sam’s Club recently had a sale on plastic owls. They offered two flavors, static and dynamic. The dynamic owl was battery powered and rotated about. So the solution is not what, it is Hoooo. They say it even works on the ivory-billed woodpecker. Now I can attest to that since I’ve not had a visit from them in years.
Do you need anymore fatherly advise Del?