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Swapna Arulraj -
Residential area with many independent houses and a few flats Syndicate Colony, Valasaravakkam Chennai Tamil Nadu
Those were really the golden days! I vividly remember sparrows fying in and out of my bedroom through the windows! Oh the chirps and the joy! We used to regularly see, on an average, 10-15 sparrows, daily. We used to feed them grains, not that they used to wait for us to :) There have been so many occasions when grains were being dried on the teraace, the place used to be swarming with sparrows. There was once an instance when one sparrow had built its nest on the top most shelf in my room! It really was blissful. They are SUCH wonderful stress busters! Sadly, they started dwindling slowly and now crows seem to have replaced all of them :( Lets do something to bring back our chirpy pals!
Those were really the golden days! I vividly remember sparrows fying in and out of my bedroom through the windows! Oh the chirps and the joy! We used to regularly see, on an average, 10-15 sparrows, daily. We used to feed them grains, not that they used to wait for us to :) There have been so many occasions when grains were being dried on the teraace, the place used to be swarming with sparrows. There was once an instance when one sparrow had built its nest on the top most shelf in my room! It really was blissful. They are SUCH wonderful stress busters! Sadly, they started dwindling slowly and now crows seem to have replaced all of them :( Lets do something to bring back our chirpy pals!
Darnie Christopher -
Adhiraj Garden Housing Society Sector 5 Kharghar Navi Mumbai Maharashtra
The presence of Pigeons in very large numbers in our building is a deterrent to the increase in the sparrow population
The presence of Pigeons in very large numbers in our building is a deterrent to the increase in the sparrow population
Abishek Harihar -
Terai Central Forest Division Terai Central Forest Division Nainital Uttarakhand
Sparrows are sighted frequently at all Gujjar Dears within the Forest Division
Sparrows are sighted frequently at all Gujjar Dears within the Forest Division
Dhirendra Devarshi -
C-Scheme Ashok Nagar Jaipur Rajasthan
I shifted to my parental residence at Jaipur in 2006. I had spent my childhood here and had stayed here regularly till 1984. It is a 3700 sq yds plot with construction in two blocks. We have several trees, several shrubs with two rectangular blocks of lawns. Earlier till around 1995 all the adjacent plots of similar size had huge gardens like ours but gradually they were sold and split into half and multi story buildings came up. Since my occupying the area in 2006 again construction work is going on almost on three sides but some bird life is still seen. Sparrows can be seen almost every day. In early summers groups of 4 to 24 can be seen on my lawn and small patches of sand. They love to take sandbath and I believe that with it they locate ants and feed on them. I have hung several earthern pots to facilitate nesting but none has been occupied by them accept for one occassion. I found two nests on a Zizyphus tree in 2009 (since it is so large that I can not cann it a srub any more). Earlier they used to make nests inside our house but now each and every possible route of entry has been blocked by wire meshes.
I shifted to my parental residence at Jaipur in 2006. I had spent my childhood here and had stayed here regularly till 1984. It is a 3700 sq yds plot with construction in two blocks. We have several trees, several shrubs with two rectangular blocks of lawns. Earlier till around 1995 all the adjacent plots of similar size had huge gardens like ours but gradually they were sold and split into half and multi story buildings came up. Since my occupying the area in 2006 again construction work is going on almost on three sides but some bird life is still seen. Sparrows can be seen almost every day. In early summers groups of 4 to 24 can be seen on my lawn and small patches of sand. They love to take sandbath and I believe that with it they locate ants and feed on them. I have hung several earthern pots to facilitate nesting but none has been occupied by them accept for one occassion. I found two nests on a Zizyphus tree in 2009 (since it is so large that I can not cann it a srub any more). Earlier they used to make nests inside our house but now each and every possible route of entry has been blocked by wire meshes.
Abishek Harihar -
Terai West Forest Division Terai West Forest Division Uttarakhand
Sparrows are sighted frequently at all Gujjar Dears within the Forest Division
Sparrows are sighted frequently at all Gujjar Dears within the Forest Division
