Our home was built 70+ years ago, so it has loads of trees and bushes to harbor birds, bugs and other creatures. This is a good thing. If you are considering buying a house on a lot where they have torn down all the oxygen-producing, bird-holding trees that lived there first, you might want to reconsider. This is a quality of life you never hear about it.
Because I wake up at 5:45 in the morning, and because DST has us waking up in the dark so we can have more sunlight at the end of the day, I get to hear the birds wake up one by one. They seem to wake up by breed. First we have the ambivalent bird. He sings like this: "Chirp. Chirp? Chirp!...chirp. chirp? chirp!...Chirp. Chirp? Chirp!..." and on and on. One triple-chirp as described takes about 3 seconds. It is not a rush job.
The second wave to awaken are the tweeters. Because it's dark, I can't see them but I believe them to be the tiny birds. Then by the time we are ready to leave at 7am, the most of them are up and about. When I get out of the car at work at 7:30, even the mockingbirds are up and singing away.
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