Aaranya Gayathri -
Captain Azoriah Children's Home, 1/87, Athalavadi, Thalli - 635118 Hosur Tamil Nadu
Since childhood i have always admired birds and since 50 years i have been making a small cardboard box nest for the sparrows. I used to leave rags of jute or gunny sacs so that the sparrows could pick it up and use it as a nesting material. Today it has been 25 years since I started the Orphanage home at Hosur and I still make the cardboard boxes for the little sparrows and paint on them so that the nest has windows and doors and fix them at different corners. I have seen sparrows using these make-shift nests and also raising chicks. They used two types of food i) left over foods ii) insects, grubs and worms from my garden which is completely organic and I never used pesticides. Compared to previous years now in the period of 2010-2012 not many sparrows visit but i always have a pair of two sparrows who nest.
Since childhood i have always admired birds and since 50 years i have been making a small cardboard box nest for the sparrows. I used to leave rags of jute or gunny sacs so that the sparrows could pick it up and use it as a nesting material. Today it has been 25 years since I started the Orphanage home at Hosur and I still make the cardboard boxes for the little sparrows and paint on them so that the nest has windows and doors and fix them at different corners. I have seen sparrows using these make-shift nests and also raising chicks. They used two types of food i) left over foods ii) insects, grubs and worms from my garden which is completely organic and I never used pesticides. Compared to previous years now in the period of 2010-2012 not many sparrows visit but i always have a pair of two sparrows who nest.
