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Soumya Banerjee -
Milk Colony,Belgachia Kolkata West Bengal
I can hear them chirping as i write this. The locality clearly has a very large and healthy population of house sparrows that has remained stable over the past few years. However,the number of trees has gone down considerably,because the previously present green spaces have been taken over for building houses.The new housing complexes have no gardens/open spaces around them and very few sparrows are observed in such areas;the vast majority are seen in gardens/the few remaining green spaces. My house has a small attached garden where sparrows are frequently seen.
I can hear them chirping as i write this. The locality clearly has a very large and healthy population of house sparrows that has remained stable over the past few years. However,the number of trees has gone down considerably,because the previously present green spaces have been taken over for building houses.The new housing complexes have no gardens/open spaces around them and very few sparrows are observed in such areas;the vast majority are seen in gardens/the few remaining green spaces. My house has a small attached garden where sparrows are frequently seen.
Rajani Vakkalanka -
Radhakrishnanagar Municipal park, Attapur Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh
We live in a gated community a home to almost 25 varieties of birds except sparrows.I love bird watching and many birds visit my home and feed them fruit, grain and fresh water and provided bushy trees for their nesting.Once I chanced upon sighting sparrows a few hundred feet away from our colony near this municipal park.Since then every morning my friend Ranjani and me visit this park and give these sparrows grains, left over rice and fresh water.We fixed up custom made cement bird feeders for them on the park wall.The sparrows are now familiar with us and come and feed on the food and water we provide.We also fixed nest boxes donated by Mr.Kirthi Mehta of Electric World,Ranigunj,Sec'bad and the sparrows started nesting in these boxes.Meanwhile we are talking to residents living close by to encourage them to get involved.We also put up slogan posters in a nearby Saibaba temple to create awareness in public to be bird friendly.There is an encouraging response from some of the residents.Our work is reported in a few local newspapers( EEnadu,Sakshi,Suryaa,Namaste Telangana,Andhrajyothi and Sakshi TV).I also observed sparrows in Gudimalkapur Market area in Mehdipatnam, Kukatpally and Champapet.
We live in a gated community a home to almost 25 varieties of birds except sparrows.I love bird watching and many birds visit my home and feed them fruit, grain and fresh water and provided bushy trees for their nesting.Once I chanced upon sighting sparrows a few hundred feet away from our colony near this municipal park.Since then every morning my friend Ranjani and me visit this park and give these sparrows grains, left over rice and fresh water.We fixed up custom made cement bird feeders for them on the park wall.The sparrows are now familiar with us and come and feed on the food and water we provide.We also fixed nest boxes donated by Mr.Kirthi Mehta of Electric World,Ranigunj,Sec'bad and the sparrows started nesting in these boxes.Meanwhile we are talking to residents living close by to encourage them to get involved.We also put up slogan posters in a nearby Saibaba temple to create awareness in public to be bird friendly.There is an encouraging response from some of the residents.Our work is reported in a few local newspapers( EEnadu,Sakshi,Suryaa,Namaste Telangana,Andhrajyothi and Sakshi TV).I also observed sparrows in Gudimalkapur Market area in Mehdipatnam, Kukatpally and Champapet.
Helen Smith -
Indu Fortune Fields Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh
Sparrows nesting in an alcove above the front door - now on their second nesting this year.
Sparrows nesting in an alcove above the front door - now on their second nesting this year.
P Jeganathan -
Badvel-Siddavattam main road Kadapa Andhra Pradesh
See below ( the one after Chandrima Home)for the 2000-2004 story of this same population:
In 2005 or 2006 I don't clearly remember the Jasmine creeper was cut down and after that I kept a nest box. Its nothing but a old carton (c.25 cm X c.12 cm) I covered it with a paper so that it does n't open up after the sparrows stuff the nest materials inside. I made a small entrance (c.7X7 cm) and this home was immediately accepted by a pair. Since then I see recruitment's very regularly. And once the eggs hatched the young ones start calling for food. Day by day the intensity of their calling increases and it will be louder. I used to sleep in the next room. I generally go to sleep very late in the night generally and obviously get up also late. But these young ones (2-3) start calling early in the morning and sometimes it used to be so loud that I had to wake up early.
krichikkk...krichikkk.. krichikkk...krichikkk.. krichikkk...krichikkk....non stop...
During this time the parents occasionally enter the room where I sit. If the ceiling fan is on they skilfully manoeuvre themselves away from it. They generally enter this room since there will be cobwebs in the corners of this room and they pick up the spiders from there. I moved out of this place in August 2008. They were there then. I told my friend (house owners son) not to remove that box. Don’t know what happened to them now! Shall call up that guy and inform here.
See below ( the one after Chandrima Home)for the 2000-2004 story of this same population:
In 2005 or 2006 I don't clearly remember the Jasmine creeper was cut down and after that I kept a nest box. Its nothing but a old carton (c.25 cm X c.12 cm) I covered it with a paper so that it does n't open up after the sparrows stuff the nest materials inside. I made a small entrance (c.7X7 cm) and this home was immediately accepted by a pair. Since then I see recruitment's very regularly. And once the eggs hatched the young ones start calling for food. Day by day the intensity of their calling increases and it will be louder. I used to sleep in the next room. I generally go to sleep very late in the night generally and obviously get up also late. But these young ones (2-3) start calling early in the morning and sometimes it used to be so loud that I had to wake up early.
krichikkk...krichikkk.. krichikkk...krichikkk.. krichikkk...krichikkk....non stop...
During this time the parents occasionally enter the room where I sit. If the ceiling fan is on they skilfully manoeuvre themselves away from it. They generally enter this room since there will be cobwebs in the corners of this room and they pick up the spiders from there. I moved out of this place in August 2008. They were there then. I told my friend (house owners son) not to remove that box. Don’t know what happened to them now! Shall call up that guy and inform here.
