I'm a lot happier today. I think my neighbours finally must have heard me yelling at the bird to "fuck off" every time it started constantly yapping with its high pitched, ear-obliterating tweets. I hadn't heard it for a few days, but did hear a very faint tweet or two when it was quiet earlier, so I assume they've moved it away from the area where the sound was just transferring directly into my living room all the time. It has genuinely been obliterating my sanity for some time, didn't help that I read noise-pollution actually damages your health. After 4 years of that damn bird and having to explain it on video calls and phone calls (no I don't have a bird in the room with me, I disagree with keeping birds in cages, it's my neighbours' pet) and blast music and white noise into my ears to drown it out (and then still hear it through that half the time) I finally feel like I've got my own mental space back.