Comments on: Winged Memories

By: felinemusings

felinemusings — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:57:58 +0000

@Barath – welcome back to my blog – wld love to read the essay that you mentioned – it sounds too tempting

By: felinemusings

felinemusings — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:11:14 +0000

@Rahul — good to see you visiting my blog and relating to this sensitive issue.

By: rahul

rahul — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:49:24 +0000

kudos to you for a nice article on such a noble cause!!!

By: barath

barath — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:24:30 +0000

At last here, sis after a long time, sat and read e few posts that i have missed here!! There’s one wonderful essay wrote by my ma’m ,”On the missing of sparrows, kids and grand-parents.” An essay on her childhood days, of how the big houses with pillars and swings, which are heavenly to children, sparrows and grand-parents love…

This article reminds me of that beautifully essay, which I wanted to translate for a long-time, will do that..

Hope you and jiju fine… Take care sis!!!

Sorry for being away from your space for a long while…

By: felinemusings

felinemusings — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:35:14 +0000

@Ritu – do send me the link when you blog about it

By: Ritu

Ritu — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:05:43 +0000

Incidentally there is a pigeon nest on my window sill and most times I simply look at the mother perched on her two precious eggs and wonder about the instinct of being a mom!!! Im gonna blog about it soon…

By: felinemusings

felinemusings — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:32:02 +0000

@Snigs, the photo in this blog of the two pigeons – changu and mangu, as I had christened them is taken in our balcony. We used to feed the mother, and waited in anticipation for the chicks. These little birdies seemed to be doing fine, till one day we discovered that they were dead. I was horrified and considering my own medical condition at that time, took it as a very bad omen. A few days later, we found the mother also dead close to the nest. I really wonder why they all perished. Is it something to do with global warming, high levels of pollution, unintended human intervention (maybe we passed on some virus as we were laying aside grain for them) – we will never know, and as always the question prevails, how to save the varied species of this world!!

By: snigdha

snigdha — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:18:12 +0000

Have you seen the movie “Bees”?Today in the morning I saw about 1000-1500 bees lying dead infront of our office becuase they had broken the beehive that the bees had made in the building. Such high price to pay for maintaining the landscape of the office premises. Where will the bees go now that we have chopped off so many trees. It was a sorry sight ande I suddenly startee feeling so depressed

By: snigdha

snigdha — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:51:24 +0000

Nice photograph.:-)

My dad told me about the plight of the sprarrows many many years ago. Luckily the place where my parents stay in Delhi, there are lot of sparrows and they even come in our balcony and enjoy sitting on the cane chik that we have on our window. But you are right, gradually with all tress disappearing all birds, butterflies are going to be missing from the cityscape.
As a child I remember hearing peacocks, seeing them so almost every day in the dhaula kuan area before Metro got constructed. In summers when we sued to sleep on the terrace we used to hear the jackals and foxes howl. Moti Bagh had a lot of green area which is now missing so are the howls. Wonder what happened to those animals.
I also want my chiildren to grow up with these sweet memories. We try to feed the birds in Bangalore but obky big crows come to eat the food, I hardly get to see sparrows here.

By: felinemusings

felinemusings — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:07:56 +0000

@Vinnie – you have a lovely blog, and a great idea for the sparrows

By: felinemusings

felinemusings — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:07:24 +0000

@Agendra – In the timesofindia article it said that sparrows can still be seen in the open areas – fields and villages. Maybe its the concrete jungle of the cities that has shoo-ed them away and now little treats cannot get them back to us!!

By: Vinnie

Vinnie — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:19:06 +0000

this is shocking..i love sparrows too…good u reminded me of my long pending task…a little house for them

By: agendra

agendra — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:46:56 +0000

Yes I agree, sparrows are hard to find these days and so are the crows. Someone told me that the birds now have shorter life span due to the radiations emitted by cell phone towers. I don’t know if it is correct or not. I even tried placing bird-house and grain and water troughs in our house, these could attract ‘Bulbuls’ and other birds but not sparrows !! Sparrows formed an intergral part of our childhood… nests in fan caps and windows each summer!! Looking back…I miss them now that they are missing from the scene.