On May 10, 10:53*am, "john ryan" wrote:
Our local blackbird over the last three days has taken to sitting on the
roof aerial and is *loudly* chirp, chirp, chirp, and chirp, chip for about
twenty minutes at a time. *It has never done this before. I've shouted up to
turn the noise down, but it's not listening.

Any idea what is going on with it?

It is blackbirdish for "f***k off everyone else, this is MY zone."

There's nothing nice about birds. They are vicious killers.