Sleepless Nights and Crazy Birds

I just moved into a new house. I really like it, but there's always little things to get used to. The first few nights anywhere I don't always sleep well, but last night I had a little help in staying awake. I woke up about 3:30am to a very high pitched chirping sound. Now this isn't just a chirp here and there but a long continuous chirp that strangely resembled fingernails on a chalk board. Well apparently a very strong lunged bird was trapped somewhere in the ceiling right above my room (lucky me) and was letting me know about it. What are come tactics used to fall back asleep when a bird is screaming in your ear? Well at first I just tried to cover my ears with my hands. I could still here the awful noise faintly, but it seemed to be working until my arms got really tired. Next I tried to fill my head with some good noise from my ipod, but I had to turn the music up so loud to drown out psycho bird that there was no way I was falling back asleep anytime soon. Finally I wrapped my pillow around my head with my face down on the bed and my headphones in playing music. I finally was unable to hear the blood curdling chirping, but I became pretty hot as a result of my current position. There were times that the bird of evil would stop his wretched chirping and I would thankfully come out of my pillow dungeon, but he started back up as soon as I got comfortable. I checked...he wasn't actually in my room so I don't know how he knew that my being comfortable was his cue to start up again. After about an hour or so (not exaggerating...really an hour or so), the bird finally found another part of the ceiling to go to, or lost his voice altogether (who cares which one is actually true). By the time he did leave it was already getting light outside so I only had a couple precious hours to sleep. What a night.