No, the title is not a mock at the village idiot type pronunciation of "birthday". I AM referring to birds, and the day dedicated to them. Yes, in India, January 5 is the bird day. Why, this bird day, avian scientists found three amur falcons who are some migratory wonders.
In my school days, we had to prepare very many projects. One such project that I had loved was about migratory birds. Those young days, it literally was a wonderland for me. Why, even now, I find the migratory capacities of birds simply wonderful. Raju, my brother, sent me beautiful pics of the pink herons, the beautiful migratory birds who nest in the garden of the Merchant Navy institute where he teaches. For days on end, I was in the seventh heaven, like those wondrous beauties.
My morning always begins with all sorts of lovely warbles. Without fail, small birds nest in our trees. I neatly preserve their nests. Each next year, some pair or the other uses the nest of the earlier year somehow or the other. Once, during the childhood days, an unbelievably beautiful blue bird had nested in our jui/jasmine creeper. We had guarded the nest literally like the police!
Once a bird mother had deserted her chick. I had literally fed it for days. The silly beak that would open each second I would hover there was both a pity and a beauty. One fine day, he just flew away in my face!
Lovely memories I have of birds. Once I had taken Kunal to Peshwe Park. We were standing together in front of the peacock enclosure. God alone would know what the peacock felt, but he spread full his lovely plumage, and 'danced' for minutes on end. Enchantéd we both were, and stood there as if our very sense of time was lost!
Yes, birds are our best friends. The generation today eats their baby food in the company of some weird mobile cartoon. We ate ours in the company of the moon, the sparrows about whose city disappearance I wrote an article in a major newspaper.
Birds have for ages mesmerised mankind. Their joyful fancy flights, their lovely appearances, the sense of freedom their life enshrines, no wonder, they are the themes of countless literary texts, and the muse that energised Wright Brothers. The aeroplane is a great invention because in a way it helps us enjoy a bird's flight.
True, the cityscape today is dominated by crows and pigeons who are excellent at making a nuisance of themselves. And, yet, at a busy crossroad, while waiting for the signal to turn green, if one sees a flight of birds, the very soul starts singing, and flies away with the heavenly (in all senses of the word) wings! Long live birds, even when the cruel Corona was somehow caught in their wings!
Pratima@ Very soon I am going to try all the adventure sports that give one the feel of bird like flying.
Quote of the day: "I would like to paint the way a bird sings," asserts Claude Monet, one of my favourite most artists.
Word of the day: avian. 'Avian' refers to the bird or the bird like (as an adjective).
Let us learn grammar: Whatever is unique, one of its kind, always is preceded by the definite article 'the'. Nature, the unique creator, would provide many such examples, right? The earth, the sun, the moon, the Ganges, the Himalayas can be a few familiar instances.
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