This is my weekend corner . The place where I wait every weekend - Saturday and Sunday while Ruby and Pearl take their key board and music classes respectively .
To my left in level with the balcony is a mango tree which is always bustling with chirping sparrows , sun birds ( adakka kuruvi ), bulbuls, mag pies, and wag tails .
In front of the balcony are two banyan trees which are frolicked by flocks of parrots and magpies . And when they bear fruits the number is just increased by double . It is almost one year now since I started to watch them .
I enjoy the silence here . I use the time to catch up with my Sis and Bro , to pester my friends with phone calls and messages , to read books , to plan my week ahead and to make silly notes like these .
Pearl comes in between during the break to check on me . Most of the parents ( ie. real people who are concerned about their child's education )prefer to sit inside the classroom in a corner, like prisoners to see if their wards are learning the lessons properly or more possibly to check if the teacher is taking thee classes properly . And love it that I get this place to myself I don't care to enlighten them :P
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[/caption]Right now a green bird just flew away from my side :D ( from google I found out its name is 'blue winged leaf bird' , but in my mother tongue we call it 'pachapanamthatha' the sweetest of birds ). And a sparrow is chirping sweetly from the branches of the mango tree :)
I am not risking a snap of the birds as they keep on hoping from branches to branches . I am afraid I may lose my guard and end up on the ground trying to chase them . Now only my pen fell down through the rails .
Right down is a soda filling station and two small girls are enjoying some bottles they sneaked out from there . They are staring upwards to see who threw the pen at them .
Oooh!! Finally I got a sparrow in focus . But , I have got company here . A boy has come to the terrace of the adjacent building with a funky looking mobile in his hand . By the looks of it he has come to check who this mad woman is , busily taking down notes and clicking photos of their house .
He is clad completely in black and I wonder if he is Mafia king or just another Swami . He is trying hard not to give out that he is looking what I am doing . Ah !!!May be they don't have a license for the soda unit or are doing some other dark business there . I wonder if they would set some body to 'sketch' me :P
By this time Pearl is back from her classes and I move on . My only worry is that classes are only for one hour :)
haha..akka..lovely post..u'll never change..i grew up seeing u wandering all over achiyamma's ayyam in search of birds n new plants..now u changed the venue..thtz it..loved alot reading it..
ReplyDeleteMongoe tree.. reminds me of our house back home in india we had 3 mangoes trees yummy ...
ReplyDeletethe little bird look beautiful the sparrow.. :)
do you take your camera with you everywhee :) he heheh
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U hv written it so well :) It ws almost like u decribed my kitchen balcony where I spend a lot of me-time too :)
ReplyDeleteOh this is soooooooo lovely, Ash. I am so envious now!!!!!
ReplyDeletehehe :D That is some connection I didn think about :D
ReplyDeleteThank you Bikram :D
ReplyDeleteIt seems you miss your Mother land a lot and you had a great childhood here :D
I hear mangoes from Punjab are very sweet :)
I selected a sleek camera so that I can carry it around :)
Thanks Swaram :D
ReplyDeleteOoh ! I don't have any place in this house where I can really have some me time . Of course if you don't consider the time in front of my lap!!:P
:D Thaaa...nks Pal :D What about giving me a company for the next weekend ?? :D
ReplyDeleteI seriously envy the view of the bridge and the swans in the river you have there :D
Ahhh, this sounds just like my kind of spending time!! Imaginations working over time (your wondering if its a soda factory at all) too :P Lol, how I can relate to that. Btw why does our pachapanamthatha have a blue tag in its name in English??! :P
ReplyDelete:D :D A lazy mind is a devil's workshop :D How true !! ;)
ReplyDeleteIt seems 'Panamthatha ' falls in the subdivision of leaf birds . Two species are found in Kerala and both have a blue tint on its wings . I have also noted the bluishgreen tint on the wings . I did not find any correct translation though !! ;)
I know another fellow blogger Shirley @ Enrichingthekid, who is also an ardent bird watcher . I was thinking of checking with her :D Will let you know :)
I have one other doubt . Ruby says the small birds we say every where in Kerala are humming birds and not Sun birds . He says sun birds only feed on insects and won't take nectar . Do you know anything about it ?
YEs i love my country along being motherland.. my own mother is there ... I had a blast in my childhood pity we have to grow up.. i wish i can go back to that time ...
ReplyDeleteyes mangoes are juicy here and what can be better then climbing the tree and having them FRESH.. :)