Songs In The Morning

There are no alarm clocks needed in our little part of paradise.  Our avian friends are watching and before the sun comes up, the wooded area behind the apartment is alive with song.  Typically, the Northern Cardinal is first to be heard, and it's usually the female with her "chip-chip-chip".  The male chimes in shortly thereafter with his louder and more pronounced "chip".  He's soon off to a tall tree to announce to the neighborhood that it's time to get up.

If you lie in bed and attempt to ignore the calls, (which I am sure are to wake me up so that I put out the birdseed "de jour"), I will soon hear the Gray Catbird's "meow", the Blue Jays raucous "caw-caw" and the Red Winged Blackbirds melodic chortles and cheeps, along with many other of our seasonly and yearly visitors.

February 23, 2012 was no exception, so I stumbled out of bed at 7:30am and got their food ready.  It was an partly cloudy day and the clouds were moving fast.  The lighting was tricky, sometimes there were only seconds between a change of up to four F-stops, so I only stayed out there for about fifteen minutes or so.  It was time enough however to capture, in picture, the sounds of the morning.

Enjoy your day!