Bird Chirping Keeps Waking Us up

Talla on 08/12/2022 - 07:39
Last edited 08/12/2022 - 09:56 by 1 other user

Bit of an odd situation we're dealing with at the moment.

Every single day for the past 3 months we have had a bird come outside our house (could be on the neighbours roof or our roof) and wake us up at 5am with extremely loud chirping. Lasts for a good 10 to 15mins which is enough to wake us up. I don't sleep well during the initial hours of the night due to a health condition so most of my deep sleep is during 3am to 6am.

Any ideas or recommendations on how to deal with this bird? I don't intend on killing it or poisoning it in any way so just wondering if there is a humane way to deal with it. Do the electronic bird deterrents work?

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Comments

  • Nugs on 08/12/2022 - 07:40
    +67

    ear plugs
    .

  • bloom on 08/12/2022 - 07:47
    +26

    Shotgun.

    • jaypick on 08/12/2022 - 14:25
      +3

      What a banger from George Ezra.

    • ausmisc on 08/12/2022 - 15:38
      +82

      Suicide seems extreme

    • Drakesy on 08/12/2022 - 18:19
      +2

      Murica

  • AustriaBargain on 08/12/2022 - 07:53
    +7

    Secondary glazing for your windows will help cut some noise.

    • talismansa on 08/12/2022 - 21:10
      +5

      I just changed to double glazing and couldn't tell the difference. I live right next to a busy road.
      Double glazing isn't what it's cracked up to be.

      • AustriaBargain on 08/12/2022 - 21:22
        +5

        Secondary glazing is different to double glazing.

        • talismansa on 09/12/2022 - 10:08
          +6

          I've never heard of "secondary glazing" but according to google it's not as good as double glazing.
          I don't know why I've been downvoted, but I'm just sharing my experience.
          Before changing to double glazing, the dB meter app showed an average of 41dB. Afterwards, it averaged 36dB.
          Technically it should have more than halved the sound intensity, but my experience is that it didn't make a perceptible difference.
          Especially when trucks roar by.

          • nomadspartan on 09/12/2022 - 11:05
            +1

            @talismansa: Maybe in your home the walls don't insulate sound particularly well…what if you put insulation in the walls?

          • hudrob on 09/12/2022 - 11:07
            +21

            @talismansa: A drop on 3dB is halving the sound energy.

            You got 5dB - a reduction of between 50% and 75% in sound energy.

            It takes about a 10dB drop for a sound to sound half as loud - but that is different to sound energy.

            The other thing to consider is dBA vs dB. dBA is a "weighted" metric that considers the responsiveness of the human ear to sound, vs dB which is all about sound energy irrespective of whether humans can hear it or not.

          • Beanvee on 09/12/2022 - 18:12
            +2

            @talismansa: That's unfortunate, it was a night and day change for me. I live next to a busy road and cars become inaudible when my windows closed and the loudest of trucks become the faintest of whooshes.

            • talismansa on 09/12/2022 - 21:56

              @Beanvee: That's interesting. Maybe I got a dud? Or maybe because my glazing is the entire wall? How big are your windows?

              • Pyrock on 11/12/2022 - 02:33

                @talismansa: Do you have aluminium or wood window frames? There is a huge difference between insulation values there

        • ccrap on 09/12/2022 - 23:14
          +2

          Lol Triple glazing is where it’s at! no joke it’s a real thing, friends living next to a major road got it put in their new build, along with proper wall insulation and difference between window open and closed is friggin amazing.

      • saltysalt on 09/12/2022 - 18:22
        +1

        Double glazing is amazing - but you get what you pay for.

      • jinkerjinx on 10/12/2022 - 15:36

        talismansa: Were they aluminium, upvc or timber framed? Was foam/filler applied around the gap between the stud/framing and the window framing (ie before the trim was replaced). What's the main style of window (sliding / casement / awning / louvre)?

        Also.. if you don't mind, what was the company?

        I'm looking at options for an upcoming project.
        thanks for your advice (or anyone else).

        • talismansa on 11/12/2022 - 23:07
          +1

          Aluminium sliding doors with awning side windows. Magic Glass is the company that installed it. They used Sika to glue everything together.

          • jinkerjinx on 12/12/2022 - 17:39

            @talismansa: Magic Glass should have been able to provide specs on how much the sound should have dropped.

            If you are concerned the seals are faulty/gas leaked.. you could contact them to test it.

            If still concerned.. I believe there are specialists who would be able to properly test if the product matches the claims.. or work out where the sound is getting in (typically they design soundproofing solutions for home theatres/studios etc).. Perhaps find a thread/forum where these types hang out.. may be able to give you advice.. if you are still concerned.

      • AlanHB on 11/12/2022 - 07:47

        My understanding is that in terms of sound reduction, changing a normal window to double glazing is as effective as replacing the window with drywall. That said, making sure your external walls are insulated would also be important/mandatory/more effective in reducing sound.

    • Other on 09/12/2022 - 22:08

      laminated windows.

    • payless69 on 10/12/2022 - 10:03

      closing the window might help?

  • Stewardo on 08/12/2022 - 07:56
    +40

    Find out what time the bird sleeps and follow that pattern, embrace the chirping.

    • MinifiguresAU on 08/12/2022 - 20:49
      +33

      Find out what time the bird sleeps and go chirp back at it.

      • jollibot on 09/12/2022 - 09:36

        There are 2 types of people in this world…

        • hudrob on 09/12/2022 - 11:14
          +7

          No, there are 10 types of people in this world.

          • Those who understand binary notation.
          • Those who do not understand binary notation.
        • DASHCAM NOW DUDE on 10/12/2022 - 17:51
          +3

          Actually, there are 3. Those that can count and those that can't.

      • WT on 09/12/2022 - 10:50
        +1

        shit on its head while youre at it

    • GodsSon23 on 09/12/2022 - 20:13

      "embrace the chirping". That's helpful.

      • Stewardo on 09/12/2022 - 21:21
        +1

        Forgive your enemies

    • 811b11e8 on 10/12/2022 - 06:22
      +1

      Since our street lights got replaced with super bright led lights we get birds chirping all night. They kind of stop later in the day.

  • ForkSnorter on 08/12/2022 - 07:58
    +32

    Highly recommend you adjust your sleeping pattern instead.

    You said you don't sleep well in the early hours of the night. In that case, if possible, go to bed earlier, then the early hours of the night will begin earlier for you. Your deep sleep will also begin earlier. By 5am, you will have gotten enough sleep.

    I recommend not using symbols (numbers) on a screen to tell the time of day, because their meaning is variable depending on where you live and the time of year. Instead, use the amount of light in the sky to guide your sleeping times.

    Nowadays, I wake up at 4.30am, and this helps me sleep better than I ever have. It's bright enough to read a book outside by 5am.

    • Low Battery on 08/12/2022 - 08:28
      -7

      Or you could try using symbols (musical interment)… 😝

      • GG57 on 08/12/2022 - 09:45
        +2

        cymbals?
        musical instrument?

        I'm pretty sure you didn't mean 'interment'

        • Chandler on 08/12/2022 - 09:58
          +5

          Maybe they're hinting at getting the bird interred?

    • Sensiekatie on 09/12/2022 - 15:35
      +3

      I have health conditions that sound as though I have same problem as OP. Going to bed earlier actually makes it worse for me, just more bad hours. Final result, only properly asleep in the later hours of the typical night. So no matter what time I go to bed, that sleep time stays the same.

      My issue isn't a bird, it's a kid who is always loud and cannot seem to do anything quietly. He is outside my window playing noisily before 6am almost every day.

      • ForkSnorter on 09/12/2022 - 15:46
        +1

        I have health conditions that sound as though I have same problem as OP. Going to bed earlier actually makes it worse for me, just more bad hours. Final result, only properly asleep in the later hours of the typical night. So no matter what time I go to bed, that sleep time stays the same.

        I think going to bed earlier is not the solution. Waking up earlier is the solution. This forces you to sleep earlier, because your body will be on a different clock.

  • forrester on 08/12/2022 - 08:02
    +7

    Install an inflatable tube man.

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 08/12/2022 - 08:06
    +15

    White noise machine

    • kolorijo on 08/12/2022 - 08:08
      +14

      Bird chirping all night from Spotify, after a month, they'll get used to it and won't be an issue anymore

      • Pinchy on 08/12/2022 - 21:22

        Would that also work with loud snoring?

        • kolorijo on 09/12/2022 - 08:12

          The up and down of snoring is what bothers me most. But you could probably use any sound that you like as white noise pretty much… snore included.. if you can find it in spotify or other platforms ;p

        • iCandy on 09/12/2022 - 09:17
          +1

          Snorers, who always go to sleep before you do, are actually screaming “I’m having a lovely sleep”.

        • Octopusgarden on 09/12/2022 - 19:57

          I have been with my husband 16 years and I can't sleep if he isn't snoring away next to me so probably.

    • Cheaplikethebird on 08/12/2022 - 09:59
      +3

      Xiaomi air purifier works pretty good for that.

    • DiscountForThee on 08/12/2022 - 11:49

      Can even play some from your phone or Google home speakers

    • baskinghobo on 09/12/2022 - 01:11
      +3

      White noise machine + ear plugs are a godsend for light sleepers like me

    • TEER3X on 09/12/2022 - 20:13

      White noise machines are great (I use one every night) but it didn't work well enough for birds chirping, somehow their sound still penetrates partially through. Luckily for me whatever bird was causing me issues just disappeared.

  • djones145 on 08/12/2022 - 08:07
    +28

    picture of JV outside your window.

    that should scare it away

    • Xistn on 08/12/2022 - 08:14
      +12

      Or SlavOz rant on megaphone….

      • GrueHunter on 08/12/2022 - 09:25
        +21

        "Birds are a leftist conspiracy to normalise eating insects". ~SlavOz, probably, unironically

      • Gnosh on 08/12/2022 - 15:37

        This will scare away more than just birds. Might be a good thing for OP, though.

  • Bid Sniper on 08/12/2022 - 08:13
    +5

    Drone strike

  • mbck on 08/12/2022 - 08:19
    +6

    Put a snake on the rooftop.

  • samcro on 08/12/2022 - 08:20
    +21

    There are worse things to wake up to. Jackhammers, traffic noise, dogs barking, neighbours fighting to name a few. Think yourself lucky.

    • Ridiculous Panda on 08/12/2022 - 13:21
      +7

      Or neighbourhood struck by a missile.

      • smartazz104 on 08/12/2022 - 15:26
        +10

        Yeah that would be annoying.

  • BewareOfThe Dog on 08/12/2022 - 08:33
    +17

    Bikies.

    • resisting the urge on 08/12/2022 - 11:12
      +9

      Over a dozen comments before the number one solution to all things. The bikies are def. losing profile in the community.

      Protecting citizens from rabid wildlife is the gubmint's job of course, but luckily we have bikies since no-one else chooses to step up for the hard/early morning jobs

      • BewareOfThe Dog on 08/12/2022 - 12:13
        +5

        And the Solution if that doesn't work?

        More Bikies

        • OZKap on 08/12/2022 - 21:10
          +4

          Bikies Revving Keeps Waking Us up

          Bit of an odd situation we're dealing with at the moment.

          Every single day for the past 3 months we have had bikies come outside our house (could be on the neighbours driveway or our driveway) and wake us up at 5am with extremely loud revving. Lasts for a good 10 to 15mins which is enough to wake us up. I don't sleep well during the initial hours of the night due to a health condition so most of my deep sleep is during 3am to 6am.

          Any ideas or recommendations on how to deal with these bikies? I don't intend on killing them or poisoning them in any way so just wondering if there is a humane way to deal with them. Do the electronic bikie deterrents work?

          • BewareOfThe Dog on 09/12/2022 - 08:27
            +2

            @OZKap: Ive been told playing Abba, and Human Nature at loud volumes work.

          • resisting the urge on 09/12/2022 - 09:57
            +2

            @OZKap: This is a hard one, Indian Mynas?

            Maybe ask the Police to park an area car outside your house once or twice a week, see if they don't leave?

  • Muzeeb on 08/12/2022 - 08:38
    -3

    Nature's gift is keeping me awake. Waaaah waaaah waaaah. Troll post for sure.

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 08/12/2022 - 08:42
      +1

      Relocate some Indian Miner Birds.

      • GordonD on 08/12/2022 - 09:05
        +9

        There is no such a thing as "Indian Miner Birds".

        There are noisy miners, which are an aggressive native species. And there are Indian mynas, sometimes spelled mynah, which are an introduced pest species which is even more aggressive. Myna simply means starling. They are two completely different species. Noisy miners suffer from having a vaguely similar appearance and a similar-sounding name to Indian mynas.

        • Muzeeb on 08/12/2022 - 09:12
          +16

          Get GordonD over to your place to read out his fun facts. That will put you back to sleep. 😉

        • jv on 08/12/2022 - 09:35
          +2

          There is no such a thing as "Indian Miner Birds".

          Only because they are Myna, not Miner…

          The Indian myna is a medium-sized bird native to the
          Middle East, India and Asia. Indian mynas are brown with
          a glossy black head, neck and upper breast; bright yellow
          bills, eye skin, legs and feet; and an upright posture.
          They are sometimes confused with native noisy miners
          (Manorina melanocephala);

          https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/62066…

        • BewareOfThe Dog on 08/12/2022 - 10:04
          +8

          Thank you for clearing that up.

          I'm no expert on winged animals, unless doused in Flour, Flavour Enhancer 621, Pepper a few herbs, then pressure cooked for 15 minutes.

          :)

        • OZKap on 08/12/2022 - 21:17
          +2

          Here's the thing. You said a "miner is a myna."

          Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

          As someone who is a scientist who studies mynas, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls miners mynahs. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

          If you're saying "miner family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Passeriformes, which includes things from sparrows to starlings to lyrebirds.

          So your reasoning for calling a myna a miner is because random people "call the noisy ones miners?" Let's get starlings and regent bowerbirds in there, then, too.

          Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A myna is a mynah and a member of the Passeriformes family. But that's not what you said. You said a myna is a miner, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the Passeriformes family miners, which means you'd call sparrows, starlings, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.

          It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

          • Nalar on 09/12/2022 - 00:20
            +1

            @OZKap: Can I ask two bird related questions?

            Have you played Wingspan

            and

            What is your favorite ugly bird ever? and why is it the Bush stone-curlew

            • GordonD on 09/12/2022 - 09:19
              +1

              @Nalar:

              What is your favorite ugly bird ever?

              There's a bird that regularly turns up in my back yard that I've seriously thought of catching and offering for sale. Because while it is probably the ugliest healthy bird I've ever seen, it would be very very rare. And it might even be better off captive than in the wild. It is a cross between a galah and a little corella. And the mixture of genes didn't turn out very well. Not in appearance or disposition. The corellas attack it, the galahs are afraid of it.

              The ugliest birds I've seen are cockatoos with advanced parrot beak and feather disease. They look terrible. Its a virus that causes their beaks to keep growing until they can't eat, and their feathers to fall out until they can't fly. So either starvation, predators or the cold of winter kills them. I feed them until they feel safe enough I can catch them, and take them to the local vet to be euthenased so they're not passing the virus on, and to put them out of their misery.

          • Hangryuman on 09/12/2022 - 09:53

            @OZKap: thanks - good explanation - for which I DGAF

          • resisting the urge on 09/12/2022 - 10:18

            @OZKap: This.

            Top marks!

            Not withstanding the fact that it'll get everyone in a flap.

    • Flying Ace on 08/12/2022 - 11:12
      +4

      Why is it a troll post? Did you actually read the text? The OP has a condition which makes their sleep pattern mean they get the best sleep in the early hours, which is when the bird starts carrying on.

      • DogeConomy on 08/12/2022 - 13:34
        -1

        Sarcasm, as this is a common problem that affects everybody.

  • jjjaar on 08/12/2022 - 08:40
    +1

    I had one that would chirp at midnight for like an hour back in October but it has stopped now. It’ll pass.

    • resisting the urge on 09/12/2022 - 10:20

      Cuckoos. On arrival they have to find a mate, as they migrate through annually when the birds they predate are laying eggs.

  • onetwothreefour on 08/12/2022 - 08:46
    +1

    Scarecrow

  • CyberMurning on 08/12/2022 - 08:48
    +3

    you should move. im sure they Chirps because you are invading their territories

  • CyberMurning on 08/12/2022 - 08:49
    +5

    if there is a website called birdbargain we will see this post:

    Human Talking Keeps Waking Us up.
    Bit of an odd situation we're dealing with at the moment. Every single day for the past 3 months we have had a bird come outside our house (could be on the neighbours roof or our roof) and wake us up at 5am with extremely loud chirping. Lasts for a good 10 to 15mins which is enough to wake us up. I don't sleep well during the initial hours of the night due to a health condition so most of my deep sleep is during 3am to 6am. Any ideas or recommendations on how to deal with this bird? I don't intend on killing it or poisoning it in any way so just wondering if there is a humane way to deal with it. Do the electronic bird deterrents work?

    (change word bird to human)

    • elcap on 08/12/2022 - 19:03
      +3

      I think the website humanbargain is for something very different….

  • DemocracyManifest on 08/12/2022 - 08:56

    Someone might be feeding it. Or it’s just woken up and doing it, we have a noisy minor outside who lives in garden but I don’t even notice it now

    • GordonD on 08/12/2022 - 09:16
      +1

      noisy minor

      A loud under 18 year old child? One of the neighbors kids perhaps?

      Do you mean a noisy miner?

      • DashCam AKA Rolts on 08/12/2022 - 09:56
        +1

        noisy miner

        A loud underground worker? One of the neighbours is a FIFO perhaps?

        Do you mean…thread/

        • resisting the urge on 08/12/2022 - 11:17

          Noisy minors are the worst… Ugh. Little humans practicing to be the best at becoming the most destructive organism alive

  • Ryanek on 08/12/2022 - 09:00
    +10

    Fake Owl for $10

    • Dan_ on 09/12/2022 - 00:19
      +2

      Real owl.

      Or falcon.

    • Misha Bakunin on 10/12/2022 - 11:25

      These can work I tried one. Some birds will see through the trick though, also a good idea to keep moving it, as they will wise up if it never moves.

  • GordonD on 08/12/2022 - 09:14
    +5

    My neighbors spent thousands cutting down the tree outside their bedroom windows because of annoyance that the louding chirping first thing in the morning was waking them up.

    The loud chirping was because the noisy miners found it a suitable tree to build their nest in, and the loud chirping was their babies demanding their parents feed them. That's how baby birds get fed until they can feed themselves. Whenever they see they see their parents they loudly chirp to show they are strong and healthy and worth feeding. In the case of noisy minors the chicks are cuddled up in the nest, or sit side by side in the tree, and co-ordinate their chirps to make them even louder.

    • mapax on 08/12/2022 - 09:20
      +1

      A loud under 18 year old child? One of the neighbors kids perhaps?

      Do you mean noisy miners?

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