The Shrike Is an Early Riser

It's 5:50 AM here. The window is open, and I hear our neighborhood over-wintering Bull-headed Shrike chittering from a telephone pole next door.

5:54 AM: I hear a few crows gently calling to each other as they land in trees next door, and next-next door. They sleep somewhere else, but they come back here every morning around dawn. "Gah-gah-gah-gah-ga-ga", they gently say to each other. It sounds like three or four of them are talking to each other....