Apparently we have an annoying bird that visits our house early each morning. I haven’t seen him or heard him myself, but I’m now convinced that he is around. Wesley has been waking up fairly early (between 6 and 6:30) the past few weeks. I had thought it might be the light coming in his window and we planned to get him a darker window shade. Still each morning I would go in and he would tell me that he heard the “birdies outside talking, tweet, tweet!”. I didn’t think too much of it because I could hear your average early morning bird tweeting outside and assumed that he heard it too after he woke up. But last week with my family in town at least two people complained to me about our “alarm clock bird”. Apparently he hangs out in the trees near the East end of the house (where Wesley and Jillian’s bedrooms are) and begins making a racket at about 5:30 in the morning. The lovely song this bird sings sounds quite a bit like “Beep, pause, Beep, pause, Beep, pause, Beep” according to independent accounts by multiple family members. I’m not sure what kind of bird it is, but I both wish he would go away and am glad he doesn’t hang out near our bedroom.
For once, I was glad for the liberal (read: nonexistent) gun laws in TX and would’ve gladly sent that bird back to the great arboretum in the sky except that I was just too tired in the mornings to aim & shoot.
Not so sure the bird would’ve gone “up” to the sky so much as “down” to act as Satan’s pet bird. Probably sits on his shoulder.
DB