STUPID WILDLIFE

I wake up at 5 am one morning with a constant tapping on the front of the trailer just by the bedroom window. It sounds like a branch in the wind but when I look outside later, there are no tree branches that low. The next morning when it happens I figure it is kids playing around but it is 5 am and no kid is even awake.

When it happens for a third morning in a row and has been waking me up at 5 am every day, I go outside in my nightie (no one else is even awake so it seemed safe) and what do I find but a small bird sitting on the battery at the front of the trailer and pecking at the silver protection on the front of the trailer. I shoo the bird away and think that’s it. The next morning at 5 am again it starts up but there is even more pecking because he has brought a friend as I find out when I go out (in nightie again). I asked at the office if they know what to do and they suggest hanging something to scare away the birds. Smart girl like me has just the answer – I have 6 small Canadian flags from the end of the Olympics so I string them together and then hang them on the front of the trailer over the silver part.

The next morning I wake up at 5 am but there is no pecking (I am now conditioned to the 5am wake up call). I figure my plan has worked until I go out later to see that the flags have fallen on the ground. The only thing I can figure out as to why the birds have stopped the pecking is that they are still laughing their tail feathers off at the stupid Canadian!!!