Bond...

It is weird you can form relationships at seemingly unbelievable places…

I did… or rather we did…. With a beautiful bird …. The purple sunbird… and his companion the brown one…

It all started one day when we noticed few sprigs, dirt on our porch… and realized one day that a pair of sunbirds had started building their nest on our toran…

Extremely happy with this new development, me and Anand tried to take care of it although it would fly away at our slightest presence… we started scaring our neighbourhood cat whenever she would visit our house…

And so began a cycle of affection where the pair would come for a few days, chirp around quite loudly, sit on the braches of the little plants in our garden and then fly away…. Then came the first laying of eggs…. Although we never ever saw their little ones…. That was the only time when either of them would be in the nest and although afraid of us, didn't fly away…. And same was our instinct for them for we decided to support the toran to avoid falling off to the ground….

We never got to know the little ones for they soon flew away in our absence…. And after a lull of few months…  the pair came again…. A little bold or should I say accustomed to our presence….

But alas such is the circle of life that although we never really had anything to with it… the cat had its way this time…. Taking away the nest and the little ones inside…. And before I could try and run for it …. The game was over….

I am sad at their loss and also mine…. But I hope they come once again this year….  

To my dear little purple and brown sunbird….