What the f@ck are birds so excited about

[Floyd R. Turbo]

at 5:00 AM?

[PoliticAverse]

1. The fact that you are awake. n/t

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. 🤗

[LuckyCharms]

2. They're all coked up.

[smirkymonkey]

8. I'll say.

They're driving me crazy. They won't STFU this morning. Almost makes me want to go into the office.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. 😱

[Irish_Dem]

3. The worm that early birds get.

[Effete Snob]

10. The second mouse gets the cheese

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. 😋🪱

[PuraVidaDreamin]

4. Yes Spring is coming! However, this just happened

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[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. 😳

[electric_blue68]

24. 😥 woah!

[dewsgirl]

5. I'm in upstate NY and last night I heard/saw a flock

of seagulls around 6pm. Me being from Florida, it stunned me
when I saw seagulls in McDonald's/Arby's parking lots(30 miles away from home), it surprised me they are so far from the ocean, hours from here.
I have never heard/seen them here in the middle of nowhere.
I used to think they only lived at the beach.🤦

[MuseRider]

6. We have them in Kansas along with Pelicans.

Odd, it always seem odd when I look up and see flocks of seagulls over my pond. The Pelicans stay mostly on the big lakes and I only see them there or flying over.

[dewsgirl]

20. That would be shocking to see pelicans in Kansas.

[MuseRider]

22. It is.

The first time I saw them it was a flock very high up. I got the binoculars out because I had never seen birds like that flying over and about fell over, they HAD to be Pelicans. I did not believe it until I went to a bird store and talked to the people there. Sure enough. That was in the 80's and they since have a population that hangs around here. The gulls love my big pond and they sore and dive. So fun to watch them.

[dewsgirl]

27. It sounds like fun.🙂

[MuseRider]

29. I used to work at our local zoo,

it was quite a good zoo with a lot of interesting creatures with learning opportunities all over the place and the animals mostly had large ranges and were not isolated. For a while one of my areas, along with the birds of prey, was a large lake with a bridge over it. The pelicans stayed on the shore farthest away from the bridge where I fed them. I would just holler, "Pelicans, pelicans, time to eat!" and they would come running then swimming over and I would throw fish to them. In the winter they had to navigate the ice. They would spin, fall over, slide but make it every time then repeat the process going back to their warm houses. They obviously had different personalities too. It was wonderful. Still, even then I had no idea they migrated over my head and were living in a lake not 30 minutes away from me.

I have never been to a zoo since I worked there. I do not like them, I understand what they try to do but too many fail. I loved the job however, learned so much but...my mother too my boys to the zoo. I did not.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. 🤔

[PoliticAverse]

18. Seagulls go wherever the good garbage is. n/t

[dewsgirl]

21. LoL indeed.

[smirkymonkey]

7. I don't know, but they are pretty much all riled up around here.

I usually like hearing them chirp but they are going off like drunken sailor maniac birds right now and it's kind of annoying me.

[zanana1]

9. In the morning, the crows put on quite a performance.

Sometimes I have to close the windows all the way.

[Wounded Bear]

19. That sounds like murder...

[I_UndergroundPanther]

11. I like the birds chirping

at 5 am.

My mom used to wake me up saying:

Honeeey get up,the birds are singing.

and the birds were indeed singing.

[dewsgirl]

23. When I would spend the night at my grandparents,

in the morning I would take a shower, with the window open and all the birds singing is a very fond memory.

[haele]

12. Worms and bugs.

And birds are evil sh*ts that want to make sure you're up in time to go to work, even if you're teleworking or retired and don't need to be up until 7am or so.

Haele

[electric_blue68]

25. Maybe some found some fermented berries?...

I've read and I believe the article said deliberately that birds will eat fermented berries to get drunk! 😄

[a kennedy]

26. Is it Spring by you??? Usually @ 5:00am by us usually means the boys are up and

looking for a woman.

[delisen]

28. They can fly and you can't

When the flock lands they are excitedly discussing their trip.

[GReedDiamond]

30. I've got big green parrots, pretty much every day, screeching in the trees...

...all around my house.

There can be what seems like 100 or more at a time, perched in the tree next to my house, all incessantly screeching.

After 40 years in the area, I have gotten used to them -- I actually like them.

According to the video linked below, they are called "Red Crown Amazon," and are native to Mexico, but are an endangered species there.

Apparently, there are now more Red Crowns here than in Mexico.

If you jump to about 7 minutes into the video, it is more focused on the "Pasadena Parrots" mentioned in the video title.

This video goes into more detail about the variety of parrots, other than the Red Crown.