Can we imagine listening to birds
chirping in an apartment in the middle of Bangalore 500 mt from the one of the
arterial roads of Bangalore.
I must be blessed to be waking up
in the morning and listening to bird chirping. Thanks to the trees around our apartment
who provide shelters to playful squirrels; chattering parakeets; watchful
eagles; woodpeckers; myna's; crows of course and bee’s who have put up large
bee hives and are as busy as they can be depositing the honey collected by the
troops. I am sure there will a much larger ecosystem of ants and insects, but
this is what I get to watch and enjoy from my 6th floor.
Over last 5 years they have
become family especially on a lazy Sunday when I have my warm cup of tea and see
this ecosystem come alive or on a tired evening when I reach back home early
and sit on the stairs to watch the eagles gliding on the sky whereas all the
other birds are giving their last shout out before they go quiet.
Today as I sipped my tea in the
evening, a friend called to say that all her plants in the garden have died and
all birds/insects/ butterflies had suddenly disappeared overnight. On inquiring further, she was told that the entire neighborhood was sprayed with special chemicals
to kill the dengue mosquitoes.
