MOCKINGBIRD UPDATE: At 5am, there was glorious silence. I got up to use the bathroom, and as soon as the toilet flushed, I heard a kind of “whuh?!“ followed by a slurred imitation of a cardinal, followed by a fair clear car alarm and squeaky hinge. Poor feathery bastard fell asleep on the job.
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Kingfisher & Wombat
For the third night running, an unmated male mockingbird* is singing outside the bathroom window. He can do car alarms, phones, multiple other birds, trucks backing up, distant sirens, and a couple mechanical noises I can’t place.
I simultaneously hate him and would kill anyone who messed with him
I simultaneously hate him and would kill anyone who messed with him
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Overnight delivery followed by connubial mockingbird silence!
... how much would you pay for blissful sleep?
May need to rethink
... Or, heck, that's a tomorrow question
For now, grab the money and run
Her solution was to haul the garden hose up to her second-story window, set the head to "jet", and wait.
When the bird lit off again, she rolled over, took aim, and POW! Blasted him right off the fence.
He sang from the next city block thereafter.
So you were BORN ready to cope with your dog's reaction to tomato hornworms!
All the yard work is a future job for Tod Howard The Fox
My spouse gives treats to neighbour cats so they'll put little cat footprints all over our porch and deck to send smell messages to mice.