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Glenn Fonseca -
Old Khar, S. V. Road Khar West Mumbai Maharashtra
I lived there and every evening at dusk the sparrows would gather on the huge peepal tree on the corner of our house busy chirping and talking to each other of the events of the day. Some would fly accross to the other huge peepal tree accross the road back and forth.We did not need an alarm clock to wake us up, the delightful chirping of the sparrows always told us it was morning and time to get up. My father always shared a little of his breakfast of chappati with the sparrows, taking the trouble to cut it in small pieces and keeping it on the parapet.
I lived there and every evening at dusk the sparrows would gather on the huge peepal tree on the corner of our house busy chirping and talking to each other of the events of the day. Some would fly accross to the other huge peepal tree accross the road back and forth.We did not need an alarm clock to wake us up, the delightful chirping of the sparrows always told us it was morning and time to get up. My father always shared a little of his breakfast of chappati with the sparrows, taking the trouble to cut it in small pieces and keeping it on the parapet.
Glenn Fonseca -
Kevnipada, Amboli, Jogeshwari West Vahatuk Nagar, Jogeshwari West Mumbai Maharashtra
In the last two years there three nests two under the rain shade of our bedroom/hall window and one on the staircase landing outside our flat. The only successful nesting place till date and the only one remaining is the one on the staircase landing. It is one place that the crows can't get access to. The other nests have always been attacked by the crows and the young sparrows eaten by them. About two months back I've put up a sparrow house as a pair used to hang around the bedroom window on the clothes line and after the initial activity the pair did build a nest in the house. But for some strange reason, the female has disappeared and it is only the male who is around chirping and trying to attract a mate, but is still not successful. Hope he finds one shortly.
In the last two years there three nests two under the rain shade of our bedroom/hall window and one on the staircase landing outside our flat. The only successful nesting place till date and the only one remaining is the one on the staircase landing. It is one place that the crows can't get access to. The other nests have always been attacked by the crows and the young sparrows eaten by them. About two months back I've put up a sparrow house as a pair used to hang around the bedroom window on the clothes line and after the initial activity the pair did build a nest in the house. But for some strange reason, the female has disappeared and it is only the male who is around chirping and trying to attract a mate, but is still not successful. Hope he finds one shortly.
