It just goes to show, they never look up.
For the past several nights I have been awakened from my normal sleep by strange, unusual, one might even say troubling, sounds which appear to eminate from somewhere up in the attic of my two story house. Scrathing and clacking, starting every night at precisely 3:07am.
The sounds last for about 30 seconds, and then stop, as suddenly as they began, never more to be heared that night until the next.
What could they be? the troubled remnants of a partially reanimated skelliton twitching to life at the exact hour of its cruel and untimely attic murder? A rodent of Unusal Size? A midget burgler? Poultrygeists?
As it turns out the latter was actually a pretty close guess. I looked inside the attic the next morning, didn't see anything. No evidence of animals, no missing insulation, no droppings, nothing. No dead bodies either. So I started looking around the outside. Eventually this morning I noticed something. At first I took it to be a really, really, really big hornet nest wedged up under the roof eaves in a corner. Thats what I thought, until I saw the bird head stick out of it.
Apperently, I have two large bird nests containing possibly Barn swallows or finches (not starlings for certain) that are located just on the other side of the wall from my headboard in my bedroom. The final piece to the mystery though, was the precise timing of the disturbances. Apperently it is just cold enough that my heater is fireing at about 3am every morning. There is a section of ducting near the nests that has a bit of a rattle. It's apperenly waking the birds up and scaring the crap out of them, they try to fly inside their little mud nest things, and then they go back to sleep.
I saw several baby birds pokeing their heads out of the nest during the day when I was down in the yard, so I figure i'll wait until they are grown to blast the nests off the side of the house (they will otherwise apperently keep expanding them to a huge colony which will damage the sideing) but now at least I know what it is.
And now, so too do you. And you cannot un-know it. This post will sit in your brain, festering like a uh... festerpost? until eventually it forces you to write your own. Mwahahahahaha!!!!
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