Keya -
It is a residential colony South Office Para, Doranda Ranchi Jharkhand
When we were growing up, there were huge flocks of sparrows all the time. These days sparrows have become a rare sight. There are just 3-4 left in my area. The profile of my area has changed over the time. Earlier (till early 1990s) there were individual houses and lot of garden spaces, now it is full of apartments with rarely any trees and greenery. There are 4 mobile towers within radius of 500meters.Even other birds are reducing in number- about a year or two back, there were 20-25 pigeons that would flock if I gave some feed, this year I see only 3-4 of them.
It is really sad, since we were so accustomed to see these sparrows, flying in and out of the house, the chirping sound of the young ones on the window sills, and in summers we were always afraid that the birds would get injured by the moving fan blades. These seem like bygone era now.
When we were growing up, there were huge flocks of sparrows all the time. These days sparrows have become a rare sight. There are just 3-4 left in my area. The profile of my area has changed over the time. Earlier (till early 1990s) there were individual houses and lot of garden spaces, now it is full of apartments with rarely any trees and greenery. There are 4 mobile towers within radius of 500meters.Even other birds are reducing in number- about a year or two back, there were 20-25 pigeons that would flock if I gave some feed, this year I see only 3-4 of them.
It is really sad, since we were so accustomed to see these sparrows, flying in and out of the house, the chirping sound of the young ones on the window sills, and in summers we were always afraid that the birds would get injured by the moving fan blades. These seem like bygone era now.
