contest between rooster and mockingbird....

[onedoodle3]

It seems my Buff Orpington Roo (henceforth known as "Nosy") and a mockingbird (henceforth known as "Motor mouth") have a contest going......to see which one can wake me up first.

It started 2 mornings ago....For some reason Nosy's crow woke me...soon after, Motor Mouth started his repertoire of calls from his perch in the Maple tree in the front yard....And it's been going on since...

I am ready to get the BB gun out and shoot both of them....Not that it would do any good in Nosy's case. All I'd hit on him would be feathers..

And it's funny...as soon as I typed that about the BB gun, they both fell silent...Maybe I should sleep with said BB gun beside the bed...

They are either having a contest or they are singing a duet....Either way, they need to sing solo....So low they don't wake me up!!!

I shall now try to go back to bed and slip into peaceful slumber...at least until Mini Doodle wakes me up....

 

[sourland]

Our mockingbirds no longer sing.

Maybe it's an adaptation to not draw the attention of the myriad Cooper's hawks?

 

[Bunnylady]

Shortly after Critter and I married, we lived in a house that had aluminum window frames. One year while we lived there, a Red-Bellied Woodpecker decided that the frame of our bedroom window was perfect for doing his territorial tappings on. Many a morning we were awakened by the sudden loud hammering at the window.