Waiting at the dental clinic for a turn on the couch stared the banyan on Yogi Nagar, perhaps elder to Borivili. Arms spread out to pocket a skier, like some cricketer in deep mid on, the tree has style; hot February, 38.8 degrees say newsreports, company of a few crows and a couple of mynas; being a Saturday they came in cars, stood and prayed before offering the roots lotas of water; on Link Road they are downing all the trees for a metro; Yogi Nagar Road has been spared; laburnum, bel, banyans and peepals, spotted gliricidia, coral wood, cajuput, kadamba, karanji, jarul (Queen's flower).... live on this stretch courtsey a caring public; they do protest chopping. On Link Road, it is not so; on morning walks have chatted municipal workers hitting out trees, numbered for death; deaths on Link Road have been digistised; 'saab, hum log kya karen, pet ka mamla hai,' they plead and me walks away to pray to Lord Shiva and IC Church for consolation. A bhaiya stood by said: Gaon jaana padega, Mumbai mein pani nahin rahega'. Edward Hamilton Aitken (EHA) writes: ... From any point of view it is strange that Europeans in India know so little, see so little, care so little about all the intense life that surrounds them..' That goes for us all Indians in India 2017. While driving, biking, marathoning, do we look around; walking with ear plugs to shut out bird calls and speed meters on arms .. yes, no cawing of crows ... seems so unfair. At the Shiva temple in LIC Colony, a peepal and a banyan strapped together sheltering Shiva make for an interesting duo and koyals romp... striding ahead me turns into the walled mango groves of St. Francis Assisi school ... spotted a female shikra on a mango branch.... third sighting over a week ...is it a resident .... me am not sure; have spent minutes observing the Lady as it sits still mostly or turns its neck searching for breakfast .... have never seen a shikra in this area. Down Karuna Road and on to Sri Ayyappa Mandir Road to pink bouganvillea corner and Krishnan corner to be close up white-browed fantail flycatcher... it hopped around a tree and stopped close by for me to note its white brows with its fantail fanning out .... and the bird came up with a concert ... best to leave it Dr. Salim Ali: ' also a delightful song rendered as chee-chee-chewchee delivered as bird prances about'; this summer me has seen quite a few fantails. A shikra, a fantail, a kingfisher in shade, and then a few small birds me do not know .... for a morning walk or is it a stroll in LIC Colony. 'Do you walk or stand,' Rama asked as me turned in late for coffee, Marie biscuits, house sparrows, parakeets ......
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Shikra again
Waiting at the dental clinic for a turn on the couch stared the banyan on Yogi Nagar, perhaps elder to Borivili. Arms spread out to pocket a skier, like some cricketer in deep mid on, the tree has style; hot February, 38.8 degrees say newsreports, company of a few crows and a couple of mynas; being a Saturday they came in cars, stood and prayed before offering the roots lotas of water; on Link Road they are downing all the trees for a metro; Yogi Nagar Road has been spared; laburnum, bel, banyans and peepals, spotted gliricidia, coral wood, cajuput, kadamba, karanji, jarul (Queen's flower).... live on this stretch courtsey a caring public; they do protest chopping. On Link Road, it is not so; on morning walks have chatted municipal workers hitting out trees, numbered for death; deaths on Link Road have been digistised; 'saab, hum log kya karen, pet ka mamla hai,' they plead and me walks away to pray to Lord Shiva and IC Church for consolation. A bhaiya stood by said: Gaon jaana padega, Mumbai mein pani nahin rahega'. Edward Hamilton Aitken (EHA) writes: ... From any point of view it is strange that Europeans in India know so little, see so little, care so little about all the intense life that surrounds them..' That goes for us all Indians in India 2017. While driving, biking, marathoning, do we look around; walking with ear plugs to shut out bird calls and speed meters on arms .. yes, no cawing of crows ... seems so unfair. At the Shiva temple in LIC Colony, a peepal and a banyan strapped together sheltering Shiva make for an interesting duo and koyals romp... striding ahead me turns into the walled mango groves of St. Francis Assisi school ... spotted a female shikra on a mango branch.... third sighting over a week ...is it a resident .... me am not sure; have spent minutes observing the Lady as it sits still mostly or turns its neck searching for breakfast .... have never seen a shikra in this area. Down Karuna Road and on to Sri Ayyappa Mandir Road to pink bouganvillea corner and Krishnan corner to be close up white-browed fantail flycatcher... it hopped around a tree and stopped close by for me to note its white brows with its fantail fanning out .... and the bird came up with a concert ... best to leave it Dr. Salim Ali: ' also a delightful song rendered as chee-chee-chewchee delivered as bird prances about'; this summer me has seen quite a few fantails. A shikra, a fantail, a kingfisher in shade, and then a few small birds me do not know .... for a morning walk or is it a stroll in LIC Colony. 'Do you walk or stand,' Rama asked as me turned in late for coffee, Marie biscuits, house sparrows, parakeets ......
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