Sunday, 15 April 2007

Alarmus enervantus

Almost every morning (I guess it depends on the phase of sleep) I am waken up by a strange sort of noise: an assiduous piiii-piiii-piiii approximately between 6 and 7 AM. First I thought that it's somebody's alarm clock, set very loud. Half-asleep I was forging plans to kill that person or at least to convince him or her to wake up by something else. And then, I realised it's a bird! The noise comes each morning from a different angle, and the dynamics also keeps changing sightly (a bit longer first piiiiiiii sometimes, for example.)

When I told about this to my colleagues (they've been living here since a longer time than me!) they thought I was crazy or that the flu not only altered my speech but also my hearing...So, any ideas what this goddamn creature might be? What does it eat? Where does it live? Any ideas are most welcome. It's my only hope to eliminate it (or to convice him to move away.)


10 comments:

i said...

Poisoned seeds in a cute bird house?
No, I guess its too much.
Ice cubes in the bird house that it gets a cold and cant sing?
Cat beside the birdhouse? Its natural selection.

Check if its sitting on a naked pear tree, than its a csíz.

tarelle said...

It might be a re-incarnation of the fossil bird which on sale at Christies, today in Paris? I suggest you try bringing back to life the accomanying mammoth, to go and chase the bird.

lynx said...

I thought mammoths are vegetarian? Maybe it's a tofu-bird? (Idea stolen from Gary Larson's tofu-beast...:-) )

There are plenty of cats in the neighbourhood (Tilda, Boniface and Pista, just to name a few) so he must be sitting up very high to survive! This morning I was listening to it for about an hour (between 5:58 and 6:57) and he was changing positions every 15 minutes and using three different variations, all equally annoying...

HELP!

i said...

No, you can hunt for them with sitting ion mammoth's back and use your hun blood and arrow. Don't forget to shoot against the driving direction! :)

tarelle said...

The bird is sitting high in the branches. This is why you need the mammoth: a mammoth to ride!

i said...

I already see her ... mmm .. I wish I knew how to use photoshop.
Nana, please.... we will help to find the appropriate photos you might need :)

lynx said...

ha-ha very amusing that you make fun of another person's misery!

Just to let you know (if you already forgot): the area in front of my window is a patchwork of small gardens with high brickwalls -no chance to ride a mammoth...he wouldn't even fit into one when standing!

nanaimo said...

EARPLUG

lynx said...

Oh yeah, of course, sounds easy, but HEY, what if I HATE earplugs? I can simply not tolerate them in my ears - plus, I have this recurrent paranoia that something important (sonor) will happen while I have them and I won't hear it and I'll die in my sleep as a consequence. Or that I simply won't hear the alarm-clock.

nanaimo said...

Right, but they are available at drugstores while mammoths are usually on back-order so you have to wait for weeks to get them.
And its not easy to sleep with a mammoth either. Whats more, they might sit on the alarmclock by mistake...