View Record #7547
| ID | 7547 |
|---|---|
| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Street 19, Sector 10, Bhilai |
| Rough Address/Area | Sector 10 |
| City/District | Bhilai |
| State | Chhattisgarh |
| Location Latitude | 21.17618752 |
| Location Longitude | 81.33355713 |
| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 1970-1974 |
| Q4. What kind of general area are you reporting about? | Town |
| Q5. What kind of locality is/was this in the time period chosen above? | Old residential area |
| Q6. Roughly how large is the locality/area from which you are reporting sparrows? | Less than 100 metres across (eg, a few houses or shops) |
| Q7. How well do/did you know this place in the time period chosen above? | I lived there |
| Q8. How frequently did you see House Sparrows in the time period and locality/area chosen above? | Always: I saw sparrows every day |
| Q9. When you did see House Sparrows in this time period and locality/area, how many did you typically see? | A large number: When I saw sparrows, there were usually between 30 and 100 birds |
| Q10. If House Sparrows are/were present in this time period and locality/area, did you observe active nests? | Nests seen frequently |
| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | I was a small school girl then studying in Class 2 or 3. My dad used to drop me at school in our JAVA motorbike. During nesting period around early spring, a sparrow had built its nest in the place for tool box in the bike. Rather the nest was built within a day since dad had used the bike on saturday to drop me at school and then to his office. After saturday afternoon, the bike was not used until Monday morning. Within Sunday, sparrow had built its nest. Rather, I had noticed sparrows chirping loudly all through Sunday around the bike but it never struck me it was building its nest. Monday morning when dad tried to go near the bike, two sparrows kept fluttering around his head,sometimes sitting on the bike and chirping loudly. My dad sensed siomething wrong and just peeped into the toolbox enclosure to find a neat and compact nest built. Of course, we could not use our bike for quite some weeks during when sparrow couple laid eggs, small ones were born. Only after they flew away that we could use our bike, rather, sparrows had cordoned off the area around our bike during gestation, delivery and when the young ones were still babies. Unfortunately, those days we were not so familiar or conversant with clicking photos; hence have nothing to show as memories. |
| Q12. What kind of buildings are/were present during this time period in this locality? | |
| Q13. Please describe this locality/area in your words. | |
| Q14. Does or did anyone feed sparrows in this locality/area, or put out nestboxes? | |
| Q15. If this is an agricultural area, what are the main crops grown? | |
| Q16. How much green space exists/existed in this locality? | |
| Q17. If you have seen sparrow nests, where were they? | |
| Q18. When did mobile phone coverage arrive at this locality? |
