Hello friends,
Here is something I do on boring evenings. Something to pep it up.
As I’ve told you before, I have always loved nature watching. We have a tiny lawn where I run about to catch tiny dragon flies and butterflies. Even though I have caught two or three of these I’ve got to admit that it is very hard catching them. They are very swift and never sit still when I get close to them. Once I caught a grass hopper – a tiny green soft little thing. It tickled my palm by jumping all over trying to get out of my fist. I held my fist very loose as I didn’t want to hurt it.
Once I watched a caterpillar for a few days. I wanted to see its cocoon and also as a butterfly. It grew up from a tiny little one to as big as my middle finger and much fatter than it. I had put a net over the plant on which it was helping itself to the delicious leaves. The net was for keeping the caterpillar on that plant itself; or else it would be a tough job searching for it elsewhere. It had a lush green shade and tiny little spikes. I even saw it munching on the leaves very fast. One fine morning when I thought the caterpillar was about to make its cocoon I found out that the net had been blown away by the mean ol’ wind and a mean ol’ crow had swept down and eaten my precious little caterpillar. That was the end of my caterpillar watching.
Talking of crows, there is a crow’s nest on our mango tree. Sometimes when we go to the terrace, the ugly black crows try to attack us. This is because they have their precious eggs or babies in their nests, and they are afraid that we might steal them.
I love birds. Watching parrots as they fly about swiftly in the air with their sharp voices ringing behind them reminds me of my wish to fly. I love watching those green feathered birds as they nibble at their food with their bright red beaks. Oh Yes! Once I saw a parrot on my neighbors terrace walking with ease from one branch to another of a flowering tree plucking the pink flowers one by one and dropping them down. The mischievous little parrot plucked almost every one and left only three for our neighbor. It was hard to imagine our neighbor’s face when she comes to collect the flowers and would find every flower lying on the terrace. I couldn’t control my laughter. Heh! Heh!
There’s still more to come on this very subject. I’ll post the rest later. Well, I do really hope you enjoy reading every bit of it.
-Rupashri
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