So, this is why we can't sleep at night

It's those damned mockingbirds! While roosters might crow only at sunrise, your neighborhood mockingbird can sing all night long during the summer, as KPCC reporter Steven Cuevas can attest to:

"Sometimes I'd roust him from the tree with a wet blast from the garden hose. He'd flutter to the top of a telephone pole and resume his song. On those nights, I yearned to take him on a 'long walk on a short branch,' if you know what I mean."

All that nocturnal "fweeping" is probably coming from an unmated male seeking a mate. Unless you consider clear-cutting every tree in your neighborhood, you are probably stuck listening to your resident mockingbird rehearsing its favorite pick-up lines until August, even September. Isn't there a match.com for mockingbirds?

-- Jesus Sanchez

Photo: Audubon Society

Comments

[Craig]

May your greatest problem be a bird that sings at night! How much better than sirens, firecrackers, and low flying aircraft!

[tigerstripes]

"Sometimes I'd roust him from the tree with a wet blast from the garden hose. He'd flutter to the top of a telephone pole and resume his song. On those nights, I yearned to take him on a 'long walk on a short branch,' if you know what I mean."

I'm sure it's too late for you to learn to share "your" world, but get some earplugs, you sociopathic jerk. It ain't all about you.

[Donna Barstow]

I don't think your crack about clear-cutting is funny. There are too many illegal and unqualified tree hackers in this city as it is, who would be happy to do just that.

[pop pop]

Wow, these commenters sure know how to take things too seriously.