Monday, March 21, 2011

bulbuls....pleased to meet you...


I have been a very irritating disturbance to a few pretty couples who raid my backyard for the much sought after courtship ... the seasonal delight to watch..... am i being mean ;)

They come , they choose the best spots on the green branches...protected by rich foliage ... and find someone is spying on them...hey see...that woman has come again....huh...



This is what they think when i slowly inch towards a lemon tree or jamun tree as i know my camera lens can't see them by it's own... so my physical presence makes them really irritated i guess....

And then one day i see the male bulbul calling his sweetheart... i actually saw his vocal chords vibrating....he was perched on the jamun branch and i could see his belly...how i guess he is a male as he was the one who was giving a call.... his vocal chords vibrating as i could see the lower neck swollen and fluffy ....this couple is a red tufted bulbul...with white belly and red tufts on both side of the ears...


The female came , but kept herself busy in some preening i guess ...can you see she is sitting behind the male bulbul curving her neck inwards to do some corrective make up ... do birds indulge in something like that ?
Or just my wild imagination....

Going by the sounds the bulbul make , i can say that they can talk in much refined language than many other birds... Like some birds just say twit twit some say tweet tweet with an extended eee ...some others say twitertoo ...but the bulbul seems to be saying twitterchickletoooo........or... pleased to meet you ....a whole sentence...They are the nightingales............ and they are intelligent to know when a woman is following them...

They spotted me and flew away together , dodging me ...leaving me thirsty for one more picture...

Then i see another couple ....perched on a cable TV wire ....this couple is a red vented bulbul couple...a red vent and the belly brown....


Both of them come closer ..tete a tete....

Move apart a bit....


Making sounds of music...chirping ..talking....here they look like talking about the worldly affairs....


And now he turns to ask her opinion.....


She appears to have a poignant viewpoint....telling him something he couldn't even imagine.....he looks bewildered....My bespectacled eyes could see better that this damn camera.....added with a fertile imagination ...or so i think...


Now he says we have seen the world from so many angles .... from the branches and flying atop the buildings..............from the telephone wires we have felt how they communicate.....

This one here is the red tufted bulbul...they have differentiated areas...the red tufted ones are in the backyard while the red vented ones can be seen in the front garden ...


We often knock their windows too....

Here the red tuft is clearly visible...this bird was knocking the window repeatedly , noisily...


They don't let us go inside ....


See that man passing by.... down there....i feel like giving him a penny's worth ....okay...let's spare him...he is all dressed to go to the office...let's not make him change...:)


Our luxman jhoola feels like heaven right now...


Let them go mad down there... we can have fun as long as they don't fell these trees....or we would be left with the telephone and cable TV wires only....and those concrete buildings .......i hate the thought of this... this luxman jhoola will not be the same without the greens around... in this last picture the bulbuls look sad to me ... do you agree ??

There is so much activity going on around the greenery , and still i don't understand why some people are so against the trees around my place . The dry leaves are falling off in this season and some people are repeatedly trying to cut some of the trees , saying that the leaves make the surroundings dirty ....most of the people don't even notice these pretty birds ... i wonder how...

I wonder how long people will take to understand that we are going on destroying nature and how it is going on affecting the human life as well ...if that is the instant interest of some selfish people...

11 comments:

  1. Lovely pics. Spring is here. Loved the write up too

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  2. :( :( I wish the time comes soon :(

    Lovely lovely pics :) Loved the post :)

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  3. I hope the time comes soon :(

    Lovely lovely post there with such romantic pics ;)

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  4. lovely captures. What a fantastic post ! great start to my morning !

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  5. Ha ha poor birds, they have a blogger following them around with her camera!! :)

    I also find birds and their activities fascinating! Loved this story and the photographs.

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  6. exactly so much to see and yet some idiots go and spoil the greenery I ahte them a lot

    beautiful pictures loved them all

    Bikram's

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  7. Well Said. I hope people get the awareness before its too late.

    Cheers!!!!!

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  8. hi hi sangita, bulbuls are very friendly and demanding, only thing they build incomplete nests, always in a hurry, and always romancing, this red tufted bulbul is new to me thanks a lot

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  9. Yes they are always in a hurry and don't seem to take care of their eggs too . This red tufted couple has a nest on a bael tree in my backyard and two of their eggs dropped and broke . Heart breaking for me but this couple doesn't seem to worry about it ...don't know if the eggs were defective or what...

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  10. thoroughly enjoyed this post..in fact I was smiling thoughout :) its really a pity that some people are unable to see beyound this seasonal discomfort caused by dry leaves in this season...If dealing with dry leaves is too much for them then I would recommend that they spend some time in tree devoid deserts...only when this gift of nature is withdrawn from them then they will realise its true worth

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  11. So true ...only if these people could get a dose of desert :)
    These birds are such a nice sound throughout the day ..why those ears are deaf i don't understand...

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