Kept up by a courting song of a bachelor mockingbird.
The odd birds that are up at 1am turned out not to be birds at all. The lone voice and the odd collection of calls could only come from one. Sources say that he will get over night singing once he's found a mate. Actually killing the bird appears to be illegal, due to a 1918 law (but feel free to dispose of the cute singing European Starlings). To get rid of the noise of a nocturnal singing mockingbird, one tourist noted online that they used a loud bluejay call and laptop speakers. But he isn't so bad.
He's back at it again now. Not bad background for coffee and pie.
Perhaps, though, he's drawn too much from the spare night environment that has more people noises than bird noises. One piece sounds just like a kitten, but probably isn't. Another is definitely a cricket. Also, I'm pretty sure that he frequently repeats his version of a car alarm. A few other pieces sound like car unlocking beeps, a sci-fi ray gun, and what seems to me like the turning system screech of a car that needs maintenance. I can't identify the noise of a car starting, but I feel like it should be there.
Wikipedia tells me that Darwin originally expressed doubts about the immutability of species while considering the variations in Mockingbirds he saw in South America and the Galapogos. The Mockingbird came before his finches.
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