We have always slept with our windows open a little. Our birds begin declaring their territories before 5 a.m. now, during daylight savings time. They are much quieter when they settle in for the night.

I sleep with open windows as often as possible. I am a Purple Martin landlord and hearing them at 4:30 is a treat....although once babies start appearing, the din of 400+ Martins at 4:30 can be annoying. ;) The males sing at night this time of year, signaling to all that they are happy in their colony. Their song is rather alien (think video game laser guns, clicks and whirls; listen here Purple Martin Sounds) but it is sorely missed when they leave in August!

I love listening to the birds wake up, especially in the rural area we live in. I can isolate the different songs and hear them wake up in a wave, so to speak.

They start singing about 4 a.m. right outside my, open, bedroom window.
I get another lullaby when it is just turning to dusk.

I do go outside with a cup of coffee just to sit and listen to the bird symphony. It starts about 4:30. The earlier they start, the earlier I wake up. I love starting my day with them.

We enjoy listening to them. This time of year we have the windows open.

I was out early to greet the mist off the ponds--it rises between my backyard and the sunrise. Sunrise and the green twilight are my most favorite times of day. For the last few nights I've had a young mockingbird serenading me all night, from the crab-apple tree outside my BR window. Well, not me--I know he's looking for a younger woman, lol.

I like to look at the sky and listen to the quiet when I go to pick up the paper 5:30-ish, or in the winter I can see the one constellation I know (Orion). Don't care too much about the birds. Sometimes it's just parrots, and their calls are not pleasant. I love the still of early mornings.

I am a late sleeper. :)

When my daughter moved into their house in west Los Angeles, she called me their first weekend there to say they could not sleep in at all. Seems a large flock of wild parrots fly to the tree behind their property to nest every morning, and they are loud.

They start about 4 here. I'm a super early riser, along with my cats, so I get the full orchestra. There is nothing I love more than a good cup of coffee and the pre-dawn hours. Of course it means I'm not a "night" person by any stretch of the imagination.

When the birds start waking up, our cats start getting antsy and then nobody gets any sleep after that. I've been getting up at 3:30 or 4 o'clock most days of the week for a couple of months now, so DH can get more sleep. I sneak out of the bedroom and take the cats with me so he doesn't hear them.

At 4:30 a.m. ... I'm almost always sound asleep ... or, on the rare occasion when I might still be up ...

... in recent months the windows have been shut tight: snow outside.

Maybe I'll have to get up to see if any are calling around here.

But ... my cancer book says that it's important to get a full component of sleep ... and I'm inclined to cut those hours short, as it is.

Like do have its problems!

ole joyfuelled

Love taking my coffee outside at daybreak, when the weather warms up a bit more, to watch the sunrise, listen to and watch the birds, faithful dumb dog at my feet and cat curled up on my lap. No better way to start the day!

I love the early morning hours when it's just breaking daylight and the birds are singing. Before the cars and trucks and humanity make all their noise. I am more a night person, I would rather stay up all night, see the sunrise, then go to bed.

I can't imagine living in a city and not hearing and seeing what I get to hear and see every day.

I live 3 miles from down town OKC, and do hear the birds. They serenade me, on my bike commute to work.

When I am out bike touring/camping, I love waking up to them. :)

Moni