<p align="center"><i>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</i></p>
For the past week and a half, each morning, I have experienced a UCR – unidentified crowing rooster.
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/rooster-crowing.jpg"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-1687" alt="rooster crowing" src="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/rooster-crowing.jpg?w=300" width="210" height="210" /></a>Now you may wonder how I could tell this was an “unidentified” crowing rooster and not one of the many in our back yard.</p>
Crows are distinctive. The direction of the crowing is also distinguishable.

Each morning, at about 5:00 I would hear an unfamiliar rooster crow and it sounded like it was next door.

I was most concerned. While our neighbors enjoy our farm, I’m not sure they want it in their own back yard.

Each morning I would take stock of our roosters to see who was wandering next door.  Alas, all the roosters were accounted for.

Now I was truly befuddled.

Then yesterday morning I walked by my son’s room at 5:00 and heard the URC once again.

It was then that I remembered Matthew had set his new phone alarm to sound like a rooster. It sounded very life-like, but not very effective.<a href="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/matt-sleeping.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3352" alt="Matt sleeping" src="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/matt-sleeping.jpg?w=300" width="300" height="168" /></a>

I had to wake Matthew myself.

I chose to speak to him and not crow like a rooster, which obviously did no good!
<p style="text-align:center;">Mystery solved.</p>