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Ghiree Anandh -
Third Main Road, GOCH Colony, Besant Nagar Besant Nagar Chennai Tamil Nadu
Yes. I was in school. My spare time during the week ends were many times spent in chasing down the poor sparrows in our hall-cum dining after closing the doors and windows surreptiously.Then I would catch them and put them under a bamboo basket and watch them in close quarters. Slowly I would slip in a small cup of water and some rice and biscuit crumbs and watch them eat. After watching them thus for and hour or so I would let them fly away, or my mother would anyway.
I would also try to climb and softly explore the nest that they would build during nesting time on the upper inset of our french collapsible glass door.
On subsequent years and times the sparrows vanished and now in Besant Nagar I do not find these sweet sparrows.
In late times the squirrels took over the nesting place from the sparrows in our house. Nowadays the squirrels too do not nest there, although they are to be found in our backyard still. Our area Besant Nagar has the large acres of swamp and green cover trees and bushes in the Besant Theosophical Society and Kalakshetra campus, and it has still got the fishing villages adjacent to the east of Besant Nagar on the sea side.
Yes. I was in school. My spare time during the week ends were many times spent in chasing down the poor sparrows in our hall-cum dining after closing the doors and windows surreptiously.Then I would catch them and put them under a bamboo basket and watch them in close quarters. Slowly I would slip in a small cup of water and some rice and biscuit crumbs and watch them eat. After watching them thus for and hour or so I would let them fly away, or my mother would anyway.
I would also try to climb and softly explore the nest that they would build during nesting time on the upper inset of our french collapsible glass door.
On subsequent years and times the sparrows vanished and now in Besant Nagar I do not find these sweet sparrows.
In late times the squirrels took over the nesting place from the sparrows in our house. Nowadays the squirrels too do not nest there, although they are to be found in our backyard still. Our area Besant Nagar has the large acres of swamp and green cover trees and bushes in the Besant Theosophical Society and Kalakshetra campus, and it has still got the fishing villages adjacent to the east of Besant Nagar on the sea side.
