Romancing the daybreak

I got up today to the twittering sound of birds. It is a little unusual for me to wake up at 5   I am up at 3 on many days and feel miserable. I potter around the house and do every one of the stuff I have read, to enable me to go back to sleep. Other times I wake up after 6. So I dont wake up fresh and rested at 5.
 Today was an exception. I immediately went up to the terrace, coffee can wait. It was so very pleasant. The day is just starting tentatively. Summer sun in chennai is still getting its gear laced up. Very light streaks of yellow are seen in the sky. The birds are all over the place. They are chattering and going from all corners of the horizon to all other corners., just like a very capable batsman dashing off runs all over the ground. I cannot identify many birds but I spotted large number of egrets, woodpeckers, doves, mynahs and a whole lot of pretty and colourful birds. I  enjoyed looking at them as they were streaking across the sky. I actually spotted a bird carrying a twig on its beak and going and disappearing into a tall wild badam tree.

I got such a heavy scent of neem flowers which were all around the house. Each branch sported bunches of flowers and they were gently swaying in the breeze.It was heady, the scent and the beauty! Never knew that a neem tree could sport such beautiful bunch of flowers.Our neighbour's compound has a nagalingam tree and it is also in full bloom now. Rarely do we get to smell natural and organic good smells( down down deos and room freshners)  in an urban landscape and I was eager to take a noseful!

There was no sound except an eager beaver of a watchman sweeping dried leaves in the next compound. I also spotted a few other early risers doing their morning walk on their terrace, But there was silence all around except for a gentle rustle of the leaves and bird talk.

Heavenly!