Have you seen the movie Failure to Launch? It has Matthew McConaughy and Sarah Jessica Parker, with Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw as Matthew McConaughy's character's parents. It was pretty good.
In the movie Sarah Jessica's character has a roommate who is quite glum, something about she hasn't slept in so long because of a stupid bird that has been singing all night long outside her bedroom window. I watched the movie while multi-tasking so I didn't pay a lot of attention to the roommate's bird dilemma; I figured it was merely a plot device. I try not to base real-world information on plot devices since, as we all know, television and reality are worlds apart. With the advent of reality shows that line is becoming blurred for a lot of people, but that is a topic for another post. So I did not come away from the movie with any new bird-knowledge.
The past couple of nights I have heard what sounded like a bird singing, despite the darkness. I did not know birds would do that. In looking it up, I have learned that some do. This particular bird of torture is a mockingbird. I have listened to its call on a website and confirmed the species, although the website ran through a number of different types of call for the mockingbird. This mockingbird must be a little different because it sings the same single note over and over and over, all night long. No variation for our feathered little friend. Suddenly I can understand why Sarah Jessica's character's roommate was contemplating shooting the bird outside her bedroom window!
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Oh my gosh -- we had what we thought was a whippoorwill right outside our window for weeks last year, right around the first of spring. It sang all night long and drove us absolutely crazy. I had never wanted to kill a bird until then. It's just that freakin' annoying.
We used to have some Woodpeckers that nearly drove me to the edge. They would start at 3:30 to 4:00AM on any given morning during the summer. Wow.
At least I'm not the only one thinking ugly thoughts about a bird singing, lol. Normally I enjoy it.
It's funny, though--the day I post about him is the day he stops singing. He didn't sing last night and isn't singing tonight. I'm hoping that means he found a mate.
Sonya, when we lived in the city we had a woodpecker pecking on our house! It wasn't just the time of day that was alarming--it was the fact that he sounded like he was going to come through our wall! (I was hoping it was a he, not a she looking for a place to nest.) Thankfully we finally managed to get rid of him/her and then repaired the damage. They are destructive little ********s, in addition to being annoying and loud.
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