Dragon Notes

5:00 A.M

I like the early hours of the morning when stillness reigns. You notice I did not say it was quiet. Where I live there is not traffic noise, but it is not silent. The birds are beginning to sing especially the robin right outside our bedroom window. I think she takes a perverse pleasure in making sure we are awake between 4:30 and 5:00 a.m. from spring until fall.

Of course, I am sure she thinks that she owns the tree where her nest is. Every year the same nest is occupied so I am assuming it is the same robin or members of the same family. I don't know how long robins live. Robins are very good parents; they don't abandon their babies if they fall from the nest. I have seen more than one feeding and herding their youngsters under bushes for protection until they can fly alone and fight any creature that tries to arm their offspring.