Okay, I get it. We endured a brutally long, frigid winter and a damp, late spring. Mother Nature has her imperatives which includes creatures  reproducing. Since the pesticide ban of about half a dozen years ago, the wildlife in our back yard has flourished to the point where I sometimes think we are living in some Jurassic Park era jungle. Squirrels, chipmunks, mice, hares, rabbits, skunks, raccoons, lots of good and bad bugs and more flying creatures than I can catalog. But why oh why do those reproducing birdies have to start their mating songs at 4:26 in the morning, before there is even a hint of sunrise blush in the sky? That’s usually when I stumble into the bathroom after a decent night’s…

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