As the Rooster Crows…and Boy, Do They Ever...

I never knew roosters could be so loud, so persistent, so blatantly obnoxious, AND so netherworldly making such unearthly guttural sounds. It doesn't even sound like cock-a-doodle-do and for a morning or two I couldn't determine whether these were roosters, wild dogs, or someone perhaps being gutted on my peaceful Poros. But, alas, it is the roosters…loud and proud, who generally like to rise between 5 and 6 a.m. and carry on for a few hours. Joining in nature's cacophony at a more humane wake-up time such as 8 a.m. or thereabouts are dogs responding to one another across a mile or so (or however far their barks carry) along with birds and, of course, the delightful clock-tower chimes on the hour…

Here's a little somethin'somethin' so you can experience what my mornings are like…and trust me, this was a really quiet, calm one compared to some of my first a.m.'s here last week!  Welcome to my world!  (If you want to take a shortcut go to the 50-second mark on the 2nd video below.)

Kalimera (good morning)!

Here's some background on what these roosters have in mind:

http://robertguyton.blogspot.gr/2012/07/why-roosters-cow.html
"They do it to declare their presence to other roosters, who do likewise. Over and over. From 4:30 on. When these birds were in the jungle being jungle fowl, they would have begun their day making sure every other rooster knew they were still on terra firma and still in possession of a harem. I'm guessing that silence from one quarter would have alerted the remaining roosters to the existence of an un-cocked flock of hens and provoked an exploratory strut in the hope of adding those to what the first rooster in, already had."