I have often be chided by my significant other for walking inattentively on the road leading to frequent ankle twists and toe bruises (it is possible too). And my defense generally is, "I am not inattentive; rather there are better things on the road that catch my attention instead of say a speed breaker in front of me." Doesn't a a colorful looking shop or a hawker selling wooden dinosaur deserve my curiosity?
But yesterday, I was actually proud of my "idhar-udhar dekho" habit. I was walking towards the station looking at the sky walk that has recently opened to the public. Unlike hundred other sky walks that have been built throughout the city, this one actually had people using it.
And suddenly out of no where a green wave spread across the sky. And like a wave it retreated. And then again it rose....this time it was less dense but again it fell. This time I carefully followed it. 15-20 parrots were the creators of object of my amusement. I have seen parrots number of times before, even in groups but never before had I seen a collective flight like this. Even their color is so distinct. Blame it on too much use of Color coding in Excel,looking at them, I remembered the parrot green color appearing in a square box in the color grid in excel. While shouldn't it be the other way around.
The parrots had somehow found shelter in a palm tree close to the railway station. Strange. Surely it must be a stop over. But yes it acted as a perfect launch pad. After two or three iterations, they seemed to have got bored. Two of the parrots had now glided to the window grill in a building close by. I kept looking at them for a while, waiting to see the wave effect again. But now they seemed stationary.
I was getting late...and decided to move on...And as I finally focused ahead on the actual road , I saw people like me going to their daily destinations, absorbed in their own thoughts with their heads down or even held straight but none of them staring at the sky: You missed it folks.
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so many parrots together in the middle of a busy city? they must have had a convention or something :)
a post from you after a long time, and one that made me smile quietly. keep writing and looking at all the curious stuff that catches your eye. i get to see all of it too when you write!
Manasi, welcome back! The folks really missed the green wave! How about writing a post capturing the faces in the crowd?
@Mu: You should say they must have had a conference or something instead of convention :P
@onkar: are you suggesting that the word i used was not appropriate or are you suggesting that I should have used the word conference? Either way, why???
I like this :) Feels good to know this..birds are really a great joy to watch! Getting distracted by random things around is a good thing, keeps you always interested and occupied.
Those birds must have been parakeets. This species is commonly observed all over India, as I have come to know.
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