We get crickets here, and they don't bother me. Cicadas don't bother me, though the first time I heard one I thought that there was a short in the electrical wire to the house. Western cicadas do not sound like eastern cicadas. I've never seen one, but I think the western ones are smaller. I'll take everything except the neighbors' loud D.J. parties over baby mockingbird. I am extra sensitive to noise. I cannot take hearing other people's music or shrieking baby mockingbirds.
DH is thinking about getting a mechanical owl. He wonders if it will be a waste of money, but we are at wit's end. I've read all kind of stories on the internet about people having problems with mockingbirds. It seems like the only universally effective solution is to shoot them. I can't do that in city limits.
