Birdsong At Dawn

Daylight savings brings its challenges but also its delights: the world made strange, our daily habits not yet adjusted to the rhythms of the world. Stepped outside this morning before walking the dogs, found the sky just beginning to lighten. At the top of the magnolia in front of our house, a cardinal singing. By the time we finished the walk, the day was beginning to settle into its rhythm of human sounds: the school bus, cars barely pausing at the stop sign, the running conversations we maintain with the dogs. But hold on to the strange unexpected beauty of birdsong at dawn.

Cooper's hawk in a magnolia tree, March 2021