Demented blackbird

There must be a fledgling or two in the bushes and they are warning cats and foxes off. We had that every year for a few week a year in the UK.

Hildajenni, why don't you have fly/bug screens fitted? You can get cheap ones that you velcro on- but then it's a nightmare to open and close windows-velux. We had some proper ones fitted on runners so you can easily open and close them. We live near lots of farms, cows and horses- so it's a blessing to stop flies coming in.

I have velux windows in my bedroom. Jackdaws walk across them looking for insects under the moss on the roof. The thing I don't like about the wildlife outside is the young bats. I have a maternity colony of pipistrelles in my roof, and at this time of year the young are being taught to hunt. I have to close the upstairs windows before dusk as they sometimes take a wrong turning and end up in the bedrooms or the bathroom. When it's warm the bedrooms are suffocating, but I don't want baby bats in the house.

We have workman banging and whistle about theirs scaffolding up around our apartments having some work done.

We have magpies who have taken to banging on the kitchen window with their beaks. No idea why !

I have chickens and a cockerel in the gardening backing onto mine, I get a Dawn chorus daily! Luckily my bedroom is at the front so it doesn't always disturb me ?

whitewave - what you were saying about the fledglings reminded me of an incident my DD and I witnessed in early summer last year. There are a lot of magpies nesting near where we live. One morning,a fledgling magpie flew into our glass balcony door and temporarily stunned itself. While my DD and I were wondering what to do,as it sat there looking a bit bewildered 2 adult magpies,presumably its parents,flew down,and started pecking and squawking at it. One of them was even jumping up and down on the poor thing! Thankfully this did the trick and a few minutes later it flew off with them. I had never realised that magpies were such conscientious parents!

We have that all the time at the moment along with noisy 'teenage' gold crests, swifts and housmartins and swallows. Sitting in the garden at the moment is noisy but a delight!

We had a shouty blackbird earlier this year. It always perched itself on the chimney pot so its racket was amplified into our sitting room like a foghorn!

It's its young fledgelings. Total nervous breakdown as they leave the nest. Adults see danger everywhere. Rather like some human parents. And just like humans the young ignore their parents!

emmasnan-we have quite a dense shrubbery at the bottom of the garden so think the nest is there. We even brought in the peacefully sleeping cat in case it was disturbing the bird. Made no difference apart from the cat staring balefully at us from beside the locked cat flap!

Oh help....no! And they talk about the peace and quiet of the countryside.......!!

We have the same thing in our garden, they have a nest in the hedge at the bottom. We can hear it from every room in the house and it goes on for hours.

could be worse Katek could be a cockerel