being woken up by birds!

Andy From Sligo

... of the feather kind LOL .

They are getting in the loft somewhere I cant see where or any holes outside in the eaves and if I go up into the loft I cannot see because its a dormer house and you cannot get to certain parts in the loft.

Noisy feckers they are, about 6am they start and im not bleeding getting up at that time -
and i didnt even think they would be nesting up there at so early on in the year. But I suppose its because its mild on the whole.

Anyway the quick fix seems to me at the moment is to put in them gummy ear plug things - but i have never used them do you feel them when they are in? - would I get asleep with them in or can you feel that they are there?

Outkast_IRE

Are they curved tiles on the roof, the birds can get in under the curve on the first row of tiles in some houses. Better to take care of it now or they will be building nests soon, they also peck at the felt and destroy it

Jim Bob Scratcher

Send a cat up there

smallgarden

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

... of the feather kind LOL .

They are getting in the loft somewhere I cant see where or any holes outside in the eaves and if I go up into the loft I cannot see because its a dormer house and you cannot get to certain parts in the loft.

Noisy feckers they are, about 6am they start and im not bleeding getting up at that time -
and i didnt even think they would be nesting up there at so early on in the year. But I suppose its because its mild on the whole.

Anyway the quick fix seems to me at the moment is to put in them gummy ear plug things - but i have never used them do you feel them when they are in? - would I get asleep with them in or can you feel that they are there?

Play some hawk or eagle sounds. They will **** right off

Andy From Sligo

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Are they curved tiles on the roof, the birds can get in under the curve on the first row of tiles in some houses. Better to take care of it now or they will be building nests soon, they also peck at the felt and destroy it

no, its slated roof, must be getting in eaves somewhere. cant see any holes - and its not an old house, like it wouldnt have rotten timbers on the roof and the eaves are metal corrugated painted white ... but they are finding their way in anyhows

Andy From Sligo

ah yeah they seem to be pecking (or sounds like it) the metal guttering (seamless guttering) early in the morning too - it sounds like their beaks are hitting off the metal guttering. They most probably getting worms or something out of the guttering

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

ah yeah they seem to be pecking (or sounds like it) the metal guttering (seamless guttering) early in the morning too - it sounds like their beaks are hitting off the metal guttering. They most probably getting worms or something out of the guttering

You've a bigger problem if there are worms in the gutters.

The_Valeyard

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

ah yeah they seem to be pecking (or sounds like it) the metal guttering (seamless guttering) early in the morning too - it sounds like their beaks are hitting off the metal guttering. They most probably getting worms or something out of the guttering

Probably not the beaks but herons or talons of the birds. Can sound like that when they move sometimes.

bodice ripper

I live beneath a lovely Polish dude who seems to walk entirely on his heels, and comes home from work at 7am. I don't start work til 12 noon, so 7am is the middle of the damn night to me. But he is otherwise very pleasant, so I am loathe to ask him to step more lightly.

I wear noise cancelling in-ear headphones, and play 10 hour long YouTube videos of thunderstorms. Honestly, I have never slept so well.

sligojoek

Rats.

Andy From Sligo

smallgarden wrote: »

Play some hawk or eagle sounds. They will **** right off

suppose I could put a speaker up there and play mp3 of a hawk or eagle on a timer ... but then that would wake me up

Andy From Sligo

bodice ripper wrote: »

I live beneath a lovely Polish dude who seems to walk entirely on his heels, and comes home from work at 7am. I don't start work til 12 noon, so 7am is the middle of the damn night to me. But he is otherwise very pleasant, so I am loathe to ask him to step more lightly.

I wear noise cancelling in-ear headphones, and play 10 hour long YouTube videos of thunderstorms. Honestly, I have never slept so well.

cor, i shall have to try it

sligojoek

smallgarden wrote: »

Play some hawk or eagle sounds. They will **** right off

Hotel California at 7 am. No thanks.

Andy From Sligo

sligojoek wrote: »

Rats.

if it is, its rats that go cheap cheap!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

if it is, its rats that go cheap cheap!

It must be, because birds go cheep cheep.

DrGreenthumb

living in Sligo must be like living in a sitcom, every day there is some quirky thing happening to you, or is it scripted?

previous episodes include "1 girl 2 cups"

PandaPoo

I stayed in my sister's at the weekend, she lives in port laoise and I've never seen so many birds.
Jesus it was like the film with hundreds of them flying around the place. They woke me up at some ungodly hour

DrGreenthumb

PandaPoo wrote: »

I stayed in my sister's at the weekend, she lives in port laoise and I've never seen so many birds.
Jesus it was like the film with hundreds of them flying around the place. They woke me up at some ungodly hour

I bet Pat Mustard was up well before you

Andy From Sligo

Serenity Unimportant Walkway wrote: »

It must be, because birds go cheep cheep.

ah yeah so they do lol

and to think earlier on today i laughed at someone on a local buy and sell site selling a Cough (with a picture of a couch) .....

JenovaProject

My new next door neighbour got a Rooster and the bastard thing was cock-a-doodle-doing the last 3 mornings.
Had roast chicken dinner yesterday and strangely he wasnt to be heard this morning.

smallgarden

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

suppose I could put a speaker up there and play mp3 of a hawk or eagle on a timer ... but then that would wake me up

I found I just had to play them a few times and then they didnt come back. Had starlings trying to nest in the gutters so played it before they got settled and they didnt nest. Put in on loudest and opened window

Andy From Sligo

if i could get up high enough I could put a scarecrow up there - anyone know if the hanging of old CD's trick work? - they dont like the reflections apparently

elperello

If there is moss on the roof that will attract them.

Four Phucs Ache

Right now there is about 20 birds tweeting away in my back garden. Some racket, but its a racket I haven't heard in months.

The cat is intrigued.

Omackeral

Another cracker of a thread from the one and only AFS!

Andy From Sligo

elperello wrote: »

If there is moss on the roof that will attract them.

ah yeah there'd be a fair bit of that i reckon

Andy From Sligo

Omackeral wrote: »

Another cracker of a thread from the one and only AFS!

no comprehendé .... - does not compute. Whats AFS ?

Omackeral

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

Right now there is about 20 birds tweeting away in my back garden.

Same here in my garden today.

Omackeral

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

no comprehend... - does not compute. Whats AFS ?

A flippin' sap Andy From Sligo of course!

NickNickleby

Omackeral wrote: »

Same here in my garden today.

Jeez, I've a few starlings.

So, what're you feeding them?

Omackeral

NickNickleby wrote: »

Jeez, I've a few starlings.

So, what're you feeding them?

Attention and retweets.

The Backwards Man

Definitely rats, they cheep and chitter just like birds. Every time you get awoken by the choir of birdsong, just remember it might well be a rat gnawing its way through your ceiling.

DrGreenthumb

Omackeral wrote: »

Same here in my garden today.

NickNickleby wrote: »

Jeez, I've a few starlings.

So, what're you feeding them?

I throw them a sausage every now and again and they just keep coming back

McMurphy

bodice ripper wrote: »

I live beneath a lovely Polish dude who seems to walk entirely on his heels, and comes home from work at 7am. I don't start work til 12 noon, so 7am is the middle of the damn night to me. But he is otherwise very pleasant, so I am loathe to ask him to step more lightly.

I wear noise cancelling in-ear headphones, and play 10 hour long YouTube videos of thunderstorms. Honestly, I have never slept so well.

Thanks for the idea. Love falling asleep to thunderstorms. Can't believe I never thought of this before.

Mackman

The last few nights have been very warm so we have slept with the window open.
Problem is, we were woken up by about 4 Kookaburra's at 5am, Cackling away. Noisy bloody things.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Sounds like Starlings.

Nasty noisey creatures. We had a family of them move into a balcony area. Couldn't rid of the fcuks for love nor money.


Brazen little bolloxes, they're not afraid of anything.

sligojoek

If only there was something you could blast them with.

Peatys

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Oldtree

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

... of the feather kind LOL .

They are getting in the loft somewhere I cant see where or any holes outside in the eaves and if I go up into the loft I cannot see because its a dormer house and you cannot get to certain parts in the loft.

Noisy feckers they are, about 6am they start and im not bleeding getting up at that time -
and i didnt even think they would be nesting up there at so early on in the year. But I suppose its because its mild on the whole.

Anyway the quick fix seems to me at the moment is to put in them gummy ear plug things - but i have never used them do you feel them when they are in? - would I get asleep with them in or can you feel that they are there?

They may be bathing in the gutters.

The gummy and waxy ear buds didn't really work for me with noise suppression but the soft foam spongy yellow ones did. Can get these at any pharmacy.

nocoverart

bodice ripper wrote: »

I live beneath a lovely Polish dude who seems to walk entirely on his heels, and comes home from work at 7am. I don't start work til 12 noon, so 7am is the middle of the damn night to me. But he is otherwise very pleasant, so I am loathe to ask him to step more lightly.

I wear noise cancelling in-ear headphones, and play 10 hour long YouTube videos of thunderstorms. Honestly, I have never slept so well.

You live in Amsterdam FFS! just get stoned and sleep.

Or check out a band called Godspeed You! Black Emperor... they're the musical equivalent of "10 hour long YouTube videos of thunderstorms"

Andy From Sligo

Omackeral wrote: »

A flippin' sap Andy From Sligo of course!

Oh yeah ... derrrr - i'm a bit slow arent I?

Andy From Sligo

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Definitely rats, they cheep and chitter just like birds. Every time you get awoken by the choir of birdsong, just remember it might well be a rat gnawing its way through your ceiling.

:eek:

Hate rats !

njs030

sligojoek wrote: »

If only there was something you could blast them with.

It's illegal to disturb nesting birds or do anything to move them. Andy you'll have to leave them alone.

Birds don't usually start singing till sunrise though!

Andy From Sligo

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Thanks for the idea. Love falling asleep to thunderstorms. Can't believe I never thought of this before.

someone told me once that waterfall or noise of a lake or babbling brook helps them sleep ... it would just keep waking me up making me want to go to the toilet!

Andy From Sligo

Oldtree wrote: »

They may be bathing in the gutters.

The gummy and waxy ear buds didn't really work for me with noise suppression but the soft foam spongy yellow ones did. Can get these at any pharmacy.

thanks - i will get and try, didnt think about chemists selling them ... but now you mention it.

I got a facebook friend who is deaf in both ears but she can hear with hearing aids in both ears.. she said its a godsend some times. When her noisy grandchildren come to visit and she has had enough she turns off her hearing aids or takes them out, and then silence , haha

Doctors room ghost

Get yoursell a wee ferret and send him up in the attic hungry and in a bad mood.first don’t feed the ferret.then if you can get Galway Bay fm tune it in.bring the ferret in the kitchen and put him in a wee cage beside the wireless.turn up the sound and make little ferret listen to the full Valerie Hughes lunchtime show wagon wheel.
After he has sat through this sh1te he won’t leave a bird in Connaught with the murderous rage he will be in having endured this torture.
when he has your birdy problem sorted out you will have to cool him down again with a bit of reggae beats or radio one classical music and a snackbox.best of luck

Andy From Sligo

notjustsweet wrote: »

It's illegal to disturb nesting birds or do anything to move them. Andy you'll have to leave them alone.

Birds don't usually start singing till sunrise though!

so it looks like I will have this until April/May then? til they fly away - great!

njs030

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

so it looks like I will have this until April/May then? til they fly away - great!

Sorry.... But yes they've just had mating season and are now getting ready for egg laying.

Birds are lovely!! They shouldn't be making noise so early in the day though. They could be hungry if they're chattering so much. It might sound counterintuitive but maybe hanging a bird seed box on a tree somewhere towards the back of your garden would encourage them to congregate further away and only come back when it's sleeping time. They can't see well in the dark so if they are full they sleep until sunrise.
Give it a try!

(please make sure it's fairly high up though )

dok_golf

I have the same problem. I thought I had rats in the roof space. Turns out it was birds waiting for the morning Sun to warm up and their talons were scratching on the slate.

Subcomandante Marcos

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

cor, i shall have to try it

There's a YouTube channel calls Relaxing White Noise with dozens of 10 hour tracks of everything from airplane engine noise, to flowing streams, thunder storms, heavy downpours on tin roofs or cars, wind blowing tree leaves.
It's a godsend.

Mrcaramelchoc

What you need is a small nuclear device.just put it as close as you can to them and set it off.