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Now that it??™s springtime, every morning at
daylight, two feathered alarm clocks wake me. The first light of day is
way earlier then I want to be awakened from a sound sleep.
You see it??™s like this, two mocking birds
nest in my back yard. When it starts getting light each morning, one of
them will start singing. This makes the other one start singing but she
sings louder than the first one.
Now the first one is not about to be out
done by her rival so she sings even louder and longer. Well you get the
picture. My bedroom is on the back of the house and the trees these two
mocking birds nest in are two pecan trees, one on each side of my back
yard.
In Texas, the mocking bird is the state
bird and they are protected. Not to mention the fact that it is against
the law to shoot a gun in the city limits of Arlington where I live.
Besides that, Johnnie has a big bird bath
and two bird feeders in the back yard. She likes having the birds
around. But she sleeps in the front bedroom and the mocking birds don??™t
wake her up every morning.
Even Little Fox wants the mocking birds
gone. Every time she goes out into the back yard, both mocking birds
dive bomb her and she come yelping back to the patio door. If we don??™t
let her in right away, she starts barking until one of us opens the door
for her.
These mocking birds will stay all summer
and each one will raise three or four hatchings of babies. So the
volume of the alarm clocks will keep going up with the number of birds
in the pecan trees.
It took some time but I finally found a
solution to my problem. I??™m not going to tell you what it was because
that??™s a whole nother story for a different time but I will tell you a
cat had something to do with the solution.
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