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You should live opposite Nunhead Cemetery - 4.30am every morning with every species known to man squawking it's head off. There seems to be a few pairs of escaped green parakeets making the most noise along with Mr & Mrs Woodpecker. It's enough to drive anyone mad, just on eBay looking under 'shotguns'...

Hi,


I think it is quite sad that you have to moan about the birds. They are the start for you to a bright new day, to encouragae you to wake up and grasp the new day. If you do not like birds I suggest you visit Auschwizth (might be spelt wrong) in Germany, A stark reminder what life is like with no birds or wild animals. Just enjoy nature as it was intended.


Regards,

Libra Carr.

I suppose it depends on what you're used to. I love hearing birds and find it very sad that we don't have a proper dawn chorus any more due to destruction of habitats etc, but if you've always lived in the city perhaps the constant background hum of traffic sounds more natural. I grew up in the country and I remember a friend coming to stay and waking me in the middle of the night to say it was too dark and too quiet and he couldn't sleep!

Heaven for me is a weekend somewhere with no traffic or plane noise, no street lights and no network coverage but with the sound of birds, wind in the trees and running water. Think I need to move to the Dales - unless Mayor Boris could designate central London a feng shui zone.


To bring this back to topic, I agree the green parakeets are annoying and I've been told they attack and displace native songbirds. Seen and heard them on Peckham Rye and also in Dulwich Park - not a pretty sound.

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