Date:20/5/2015
The garden around was watered as usual.
Nowadays I have stopped watching the water dish that we have put for the birds but my ears are always tuned to sounds of the birds.I was dusting the room opposite the water bath of the birds. Suddenly I heard lot of sounds so I looked up. It was a rare sight .I quickly got the camera,adjusted the curtains and slowly opened the window.
There was a sparrow-no two of them,aTickell's Blue flycatcher,a warbler and a sun bird all together at the water bath.The sun bird was on the Exora tree.I tried capturing it all on camera but two flew away and one couldn't be captured on camera. What I got was the Ticklle's Blue.Soon it flew away . After about half an hour I again saw it on the Chickoo tree.It is a beautiful bird!A blue bird with throat and breast pale rusty fading to white on abdomen.It makes a metallic sound.
I informed my neighbours .They too saw the bird. Again I got busy with some work and an hour later the neighbour came to me with the bird in his hand.
The cat had hunted it down and was ready to eat it!.The bird lay dead.
I was very sad-- but nature has its own ways and we are helpless. I said aloud that another one would come some day-which was when my neighbour who is a professional bird watchertold me that only one was sighted in our area .
It was then that it struck me that I was the last one to photograph this beautiful,rare bird and this is its last photograph!!!
R.I.P. dear bird- I shall miss you dearly!!
The garden around was watered as usual.
Nowadays I have stopped watching the water dish that we have put for the birds but my ears are always tuned to sounds of the birds.I was dusting the room opposite the water bath of the birds. Suddenly I heard lot of sounds so I looked up. It was a rare sight .I quickly got the camera,adjusted the curtains and slowly opened the window.
There was a sparrow-no two of them,aTickell's Blue flycatcher,a warbler and a sun bird all together at the water bath.The sun bird was on the Exora tree.I tried capturing it all on camera but two flew away and one couldn't be captured on camera. What I got was the Ticklle's Blue.Soon it flew away . After about half an hour I again saw it on the Chickoo tree.It is a beautiful bird!A blue bird with throat and breast pale rusty fading to white on abdomen.It makes a metallic sound.
I informed my neighbours .They too saw the bird. Again I got busy with some work and an hour later the neighbour came to me with the bird in his hand.
The cat had hunted it down and was ready to eat it!.The bird lay dead.
I was very sad-- but nature has its own ways and we are helpless. I said aloud that another one would come some day-which was when my neighbour who is a professional bird watchertold me that only one was sighted in our area .
It was then that it struck me that I was the last one to photograph this beautiful,rare bird and this is its last photograph!!!
R.I.P. dear bird- I shall miss you dearly!!
