There is a phenomena with birds known as “the dawn chorus”…
They say it happens for a variety of reasons; singing warms the birds after a cold night, the air is still and thus mating songs travel father, the songs are territorial defense claims against other male birds…
Of course every theory is theory and only God knows fully why he did what he did….
I like to think that they are rising in the morning and simply singing out of joy and praise and thanksgiving. Maybe I am reading my life into them, but I have had many times in my life when I have come out of the dark night of the soul and burst into thanksgiving.
America’s “Star Spangled Banner” was such a bird song….
Our praise is proof through the night that we are still “there”. The Bible uses the phrase “the fourth watch” for this hour and it was the hardest watch after a long night and the most joyous because the people had survived the terrors of another night…
I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.
Psalm 130:6
What are you singing praises too?