Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for February 10, 2021

Ahh my neighbors

Don’t cha gots a worm to catch?

So….

Just give her something to chirp about tonight.

(And ask her if she is into reverse pecking order.)

I don’t think he’ll be asked back.

Australia here. Try sleeping though kookaburra laughter at 4:00am.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoPPVFJuj7E

Glad my second wife isn’t like this. (just kidding)

Don’t they all do that?

I have that happen a lot in the summertime here early in the morning with robins. At least one will do the non stop chirping routinein a tree outside my bedroom window that always wakes me up. So I get out of bed and go outside to confront the little varmintwith a lit firecracker and toss it up in the tree. The bird will fly off and not come back. Revenge was served & I get back in bed again.

Really? That’s weird. I like to chirp incessantly between the hours of 8:00 and midnight. I guess it would be kind of hard getting up early when I am up chirping until midnight, huh.

On the other wing, she was a really chirp date.

“Take a Hike.” (or, at least, when you get up, “fly to the next block before you start chirping.”)

He’s lucky she’s not a Nightindale…

…first date?

Alarm bells began to wing.

In college our backyard was bordered by the Iowa River. The ducks started in about 4:30 AM which is very early considering the bars closed at 2 AM.

Love sitting outside in the morn with a cup of tea and listening to that ‘incessant’ chirping. Just another reason that I hate winter.

He’s using Twitter.

The cats get up regularly at 5:30 and cry for their breakfast. Clever cats, but they didn’t know about the end of daylight saving time.

I am so thankful my mom finally got rid of her cocktiels, they were inducing my migraines and the days I was able to sleep in, those dang birds woke me up with their ongoing screeching in the morning, I know exactly how this bird feels

Shouldn’t those two be “birds of a feather”?

“She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh.”

The campers’ alarm: Olive-sided Flycatchers are vocal in spring and early summer, so listen for the abrupt quick, three beers! song of the male as well as for quick, distinctive pip-pip-pip call notes

So much for the bluebird of happiness.

I definitely would mind that.

I had a girlfriend who would get up at 5:00 am every morning ,rain or shine, and run a mile. The great thing, the really marvellous thing was that she never, ever asked me to go along. :)

Blue jay’s song is extremely irritating; not a song as much as an annoying squawk.

Mark P might be a birdwatcher, as it’s the big-eyed birds that are first to start singing in the morning and last to stop in the evening. When we took a summer vacation in northern Germany, the verdammte Vögel started singing before 4:00 and didn’t stop until after 22:00.

Obviously one of those godawful obnoxious house sparrows (an invasive species in the U.S., BTW). They will chirp, chirp, chirp incessantly, as if they’re in their own version of the movie “Speed”; they’re afraid that if they stop for so much as a second, they’ll explode.