Life Lessons Learned From A Mockingbird!
My Mockingbird gets up with the sun and I awake with a tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet and a final tweet before he takes a breath to start the concert again with the same five notes. It’s a wonderful way to greet a new day.
Granted, most mornings I don’t want to get up with the sun, but no one mentioned this to my feathered friend. He has a powerful and projecting voice that wakes me out of a sound sleep each day promptly at five AM. The first inclination is to get angry when awakened from a good night’s sleep, but after a few minutes, the sound enters your soul and you realize something beautiful has just happened.
Until I did a little research on the subject, I had no idea why this bird is singing with such gusto each morning. It’s always the same five notes and then after fifteen minutes or so, he will fly away to another part of the yard to sing something entirely different. He is searching for a mate and at the same time he is claiming in song, his territory.
