What wakes you up in the morning?

WithNobsOnIt
…or just be grateful you’re able to hear him? The blackbird’s song is the last bird song of the night here and it would be a poorer world without it.
I’m in awe of all you GNs waking happily at dawn. After years of getting up early for work and now every weekday for school run, I still hate getting out of bed!

As humans more and more take over the animals territory - eg building yet more housing for our steadily increasing overpopulation figures - then I think that's one factor why there are fewer birds (fewer anything....) around.

All those people (both farmers and home gardeners) that use nasty chemicals as well (weedkiller anyone?!) won't be helping either.

I read that blackbirds are decreasing in numbers, as are starlings - and probably lots of other birds too I can't understand people complaining about birds. And, anyway, do blackbirds "squawk"? I would say that crows - or parakeets - "squawk".

Whichever, I would never want to harm a bird's nest. We need to learn to live and let live. It seems that so many animals now are being described as "vermin" - pigeons, squirrels, seagulls, foxes, et, etc.

Yep....withknobson - that is a most unpleasant attitude to the birds. They're just doing what birds do - ie singing.

I used to like the Dawn Chorus I had way back - ie back 2 house moves ago - in the 1970's. Unfortunately there's rather fewer birds around than there was back in that decade. So - even though I'm now in a noticeabley more "countryish" area these days = there aren't nearly as many birds around to sing as I noticed back then.

But - yep...it is illegal to chop down trees/hedges at the relevant time of year (like right now for instance) - though I've had a go at people for breaking the law in that respect twice since moving here (and one of them was a former priest!!!!! - and the police guy who came out to inspect all the resultant feathers on the ground tried very hard and succeeded in not noticing the feathers somehow............hmmm.....) and another one was daft enough to advertise he'd do hedgecutting - right now! (funnily enough that post on a Facebook group vanished after it had been noticed.....hmmm....).

Hopefully I wake up fairly early to enjoy a pleasant day. I take it easy and don't rush but there's usually something I want to get on with or go somewhere.

WithNobsOnIt

Your attitude towards the blackbirds is vile and vicious and psychopathic and narcy.

I know they can be really noisy, but that's in their nature, it's their way of communicating.

Would you destroy a nursery and all the kids because the kids are all screaming?

LEAVE THOSE BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS ALONE.

Bertie woke me up every morning around 4:30. He's a little birdie with a beautiful, distinctive voice calling out WEEBOO! WEEBOO!

On the 21st of July, we had a massive storm here with loads of thunder and lightning and rain, and sadly, I've not heard little Bertie since then.

I hope he's OK...

Other than him, a desperation to wee and a mad thirst wakes me up!

Withnobsonit: oh dear, that’s an unpleasant thought, not to mention illegal.

I usually wake up to the radio tuning in to Farming Today on radio 4, though I’m always pleased when I wake earlier in time for the news briefing and the shipping forecast - that really sets me up for a happy, settled kind of a day.

Ladyleftfieldlover

Often my bladder or more recently the blackbirds who are nesting just beyond my window. Their squawking is deafening.

Dont suffer silence about these sodding black birds
Destroy the nest, It's as simple as that, Problem solved.

Usually my bladder ,but sometimes cramp .
Today was a very unpleasant nightmare .
Occasionally it's birds and sunshine .

Well Redhead56 I'd be unplugging Alexa and turning the pressure valve down on the tap.
My dog wakes me at 7.30 on the dot needs his breakfast & a walk.

Morning here in Oz. Just wakened to a very wet bed! Hot water bottle disaster. Off to buy electric blanket!

Internal alarm clock set at 5.30am.

One of three things wakes me up. The collared doves on my roof, the cat meowing for his breakfast or my bladder.
I would like a nice lie-in sometimes, but it never happens.

My dog, whining for her breakfast.

Tenko

I have an internal body clock . I used to get up at 6 for work and 3 years after retiring , I still wake at 6-6.30. Plus the birdsong

Yep....I've got that one - ie the "internal body clock".

It makes even less sense with me - as I've been retired for even longer (ie over 10 years) and yet still I tend to be up at around 6 a.m. (as that's what I had to do for work).

These days I've been having a new phenomenon - of many nights where my dreams (what snippets I remember when I wake up) aren't fantastical "could only happen in dreams" type stuff. They feel like I'm living a whole different life (at a younger stage than I currently am) and there's snippets of jobs, relationships, social life (just as realistic as the ones I actually had iyswim) and that's a new phenomenon to me.

Wondering if anyone else has "alternate true-to-life real life scenarios" going on in their dreams at night.....

So here I am about 2.30am. Had an operation yesterday and as usual my back and knees are complaining about the stress and uncomfortable positions I had to lie in. This means inevitably on days like this, I am wide awake, and when I admit to myself that I am not going to get back to sleep, I put my dressing gown on and sit here reading messages and adding my twopennorth. After about an hour I might get back to sleep, but if I do I then seem towake with a headache and groggy so sometimes I accept the inevitable toand just stay up. I do quiet jobs like putting washing away etc so at least I am catching up with things which then mean I can get out early to the market etc. Cheering to know that other gn's who are wide awake may add interesting posts and I am not the only one awake!!

Used to be Morning Wood, now needing Loo or Bright Sunshine

Bladder, cat needing to go out, restless legs, daylight, over active brain. If I get five hours solid sleep I am delighted 😳

Like the majority, my bladder.

Then getting myself moving for my gym class, in the hope of staving off decrepitude as long as possible! Hope I'm not doing a King Cnut.....

Hip pain and puss cats wanting breakfast!

I have an internal body clock . I used to get up at 6 for work and 3 years after retiring , I still wake at 6-6.30. Plus the birdsong

Usually my dogs barking when OH lets them out, the sun shining in and making me too hot, or needing the loo.

I wake at 8 most days, though I am often a bit of a nightbird, now spending a long time to get disabled dH to bed and need a bit of winding down time. I wake either for the loo or a drink of water and get up at once if after about 6.30 otherwise my scoliosis starts to get to me.

On holiday in our caravan I can happily sleep till 9.

Northernsoulnanna

We have a flock of geese who fly over everymorning usually about 7am make such a noise.
They fly from lakes by the A1 (5 mins away) to the lakes outside our village
They usually return near the A1 about 6
Its as if they wear watches.
This is followed by the Red Kites they make a sqauking noise. They are circleing all day, love watching them..

Why do geese make such a racket when they fly over? They seem be screeching at each other non-stop!

What on earth are they saying?