Rachana Gupta -
Shree Complex Phase-III, Adharwadi Jail Road Adharwadi Kalyan Maharashtra
Plenty of sparrows. I was a nouvelle to Kalyan from Bombay, and it was something very very unusual for us to see so many sparrows all about the place - "look there - it's a sparrow!"
There were several nests - they begged to make a nest in our house and they were just never quitting - until we allowed them!
They'd be chirping right from dawn to dusk and then night would be a sudden silence with just an owl or two to be heard.
Now all's changed. There are just mynahs and few crows, and more pigeons.
It's also reduced further now since the Housing co-operations issued an order to all residents to not put plants on their windows as it destroys the look of the newly-painted buildings.
Apart from that, there are many mobile-connectivity towers all about - each building has one in every residential society, and it's a pity the sparrows just come in very small numbers - a count of 5 max seen over a week. And disappear as fast as they had come. It's almost like they cannot adjust to the place, or cannot stand being in this area now. They seem to want to avoid it. So the counts from approx. 70 a week in 1996 to 5-6 in certain weeks of certain months.
Plenty of sparrows. I was a nouvelle to Kalyan from Bombay, and it was something very very unusual for us to see so many sparrows all about the place - "look there - it's a sparrow!"
There were several nests - they begged to make a nest in our house and they were just never quitting - until we allowed them!
They'd be chirping right from dawn to dusk and then night would be a sudden silence with just an owl or two to be heard.
Now all's changed. There are just mynahs and few crows, and more pigeons.
It's also reduced further now since the Housing co-operations issued an order to all residents to not put plants on their windows as it destroys the look of the newly-painted buildings.
Apart from that, there are many mobile-connectivity towers all about - each building has one in every residential society, and it's a pity the sparrows just come in very small numbers - a count of 5 max seen over a week. And disappear as fast as they had come. It's almost like they cannot adjust to the place, or cannot stand being in this area now. They seem to want to avoid it. So the counts from approx. 70 a week in 1996 to 5-6 in certain weeks of certain months.
