Oh goodness. I've gone to sleep with crickets outside my window but not a bird. I do like waking up to them though.

I have lived the last 30 years in Orange and Riverside county and have never heard any bird sing at night. I did have a small brown bird that would talk to me thru the window in the morning.

We sent him your way! Last year he sat outside OUR window at the exact same time! We now know where the title of the book To Kill a Mockingbird came from!!

The only thing I have ever heard that will discourage a mockingbird is to shoot it. That being waaaaaaaaay outside of my list of choices, maybe some earplugs would help. Good luck, Oh, and try to enjoy one of Gods wonderful creatures Maybe put out a loud recording of a cat mewing

Shasta we moved to our present location 12 years ago, there is a train station across the water that amplifies all sounds, not only we could hear the trains but they tooted loudly approaching and leaving the station. I can tell you that after a couple of months, I couldn't hear the trains anymore unless I concentrated on it. There's hope.

You can hear a mockingbird here, http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/N...ingbird/sounds

Can you even hear it through a closed window?

I hear your pain....We have some loud bird that thinks 4:00 a.m. is wake-up time for everybody. Then, when the sun does come up around 6:00 a.m, he shuts up (I call it a "he"...it squawks so much it must be a "she"). My DH just mentioned how we're gonna have to close the window cause the birds get me up, which gets him up, and then the whole dang house is up.

Yes, he/she comes through loud and clear even though the windows are closed. Guess I'll just have to get some ear plugs as suggested. Thanks you all, now I know all about the mockingbird. %;-)

I got the link up but can't hear anything and I have the sound turned all the way up. I had a bird the other night that ran it's beak for hours. It sound like a mother bird preparing the nest and the dad brought the wrong twig and put it in the wrong place.. aaaarrrghh.
I'm sure if I shot at it I would have been arrested for just trying to scare it away.
It must have known what was in my heart as it didn't do a repeat performance the next night.

Not an idea of what the bird is, but could you attach old CD's hung from strings to the branches to scare him away, or are the branches to high? I put them in my garden to keep them out because they eat my plants. If works for me, hopefully might work for you.
Ellie