Noisy Birds

23 May 2010 - In Hong Kong we are used to noise. So one would expect people to welcome bird song. Well, apparently not. The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society says it has received more calls from people complaining about noisy birds keeping them awake than in the whole of last year. The Indian Cuckoo is the biggest culprit, and the Asian Koel is another offender. The Society is pleading with people to accept the noise or, as they call it, the "sound of nature". But I am afraid this call may fall on deaf ears : most Hong Kong do not like nature, and it was reportedly that an increasing  number of children is nature-phobe.