My Sun Rises With You

For the Day 11 AUgust prompt “birdwatching”—It was an hour before sunrise, and the purples and pinks of dawn were slowly stretching across the sky.Stars winked out, one by one as the Earth slowly woke from her slumber. The first robin began to trill, soon joined by others. The tendrils of pink sky crawled further out of the eastern horizon as sparrows, warblers, and thrushes joined the dawn chorus.A bittern stepped cautiously out of the reeds of the marshes at Revenge National Wildlife Refuge, and was almost immediately bathed in the yellow tungsten of headlights. The shadows of the reeds traveled across its feathers as the lights passed by.—Best friends Ed and Stede go birding at sunrise and their feelings come into the light.