Awakening to the dawn chorus

Blissful isn't it. All you city folks thinking how beautifully serene it is to wake to the bushland choir of birdlife, celebrating life by singing. Hmmm well not if you include amongst their ranks a very noisy koel cuckoo which likes to wake at 4.30am. This musical philistine is joined shortly afterwards by the gaggle of channel billed cuckoos (see story below). Recently joining in the fray are a number of cattle that Bill, one of our neighbours, has placed in a paddock near our place. I now understand what 'the cattle are 'lo'ing means.'...it's bloody well short for bellowing...and then there's the cow amongst them that sounds not unlike the T. rex from Jurassic Park. Literally. Hand me that valium....