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Title: Birds chirping at 2am?
Post by: Soso0 on September 11, 2014, 06:16:55 am
Went to throw out the garbage and had a smoke. I heard birds chirping this late at night, are they usually out at this time or am I just barely noticing this?
Title: Re: Birds chirping at 2am?
Post by: Vulture on September 11, 2014, 07:06:40 am
It's normal for some species, like mockingbirds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCh2eyDSeNE
Title: Re: Birds chirping at 2am?
Post by: Soso0 on September 11, 2014, 06:16:32 pm
I was hoping it was something out of the norm
Title: Re: Birds chirping at 2am?
Post by: RisiR on September 11, 2014, 06:22:50 pm
You know what's also weird? Bats flying around streetlights at night. I'm sure they are bats because I've spent a while exploring their art of flight and yea, bats. Why do they fly around lights? I thought they were mostly blind.
Title: Re: Birds chirping at 2am?
Post by: Ninja on September 11, 2014, 06:39:15 pm
You know what's also weird? Bats flying around streetlights at night. I'm sure they are bats because I've spent a while exploring their art of flight and yea, bats. Why do they fly around lights? I thought they were mostly blind.

What hangs out around lights...  Bugs.  It's like a buffet for bats.
Title: Re: Birds chirping at 2am?
Post by: RisiR on September 11, 2014, 06:59:23 pm
You know what's also weird? Bats flying around streetlights at night. I'm sure they are bats because I've spent a while exploring their art of flight and yea, bats. Why do they fly around lights? I thought they were mostly blind.

What hangs out around lights...  Bugs.  It's like a buffet for bats.
Dude.... I'm such an idiot. Makes perfect sense.

Good job.
Title: Re: Birds chirping at 2am?
Post by: Calzone on September 11, 2014, 08:17:09 pm
This shit pisses me off. I'm an insomniac, and the last thing I want is birds chirping at 3am to remind me that I'm an unproductive member of society
Title: Re: Birds chirping at 2am?
Post by: Proots on September 11, 2014, 09:22:10 pm
You know what's also weird? Bats flying around streetlights at night. I'm sure they are bats because I've spent a while exploring their art of flight and yea, bats. Why do they fly around lights? I thought they were mostly blind.

They are a nocturnal species in the sense that they are most active at night, but don't necessarily have an aversion to light. From what I understand, echolocation works regardless.
Title: Re: Birds chirping at 2am?
Post by: bling bling on September 12, 2014, 07:42:29 pm
shoot them
Title: Re: Birds chirping at 2am?
Post by: Siu3d on September 12, 2014, 07:50:11 pm
Went to throw out the garbage and had a smoke. I heard birds chirping this late at night, are they usually out at this time or am I just barely noticing this?

Sounds unusual. Could be someone's pet bird sitting next to an open window. It would be dead silent in my neighborhood at 2am if not for the frogs ribbiting in the two lakes that surround me.