There were a few large birds in the garden perched, before they began the routine flight movements for the day, when I walked in to the garden at home.
I filled the feeding tray with food and was waiting for the regular again visitors at the feeding station.
As usual the Bulbuls and others arrived and were waiting g for their turn.
What surprised me was a Tree pie who too arrived for millets in the feeding station. This was an unusual sight. A Tree pie is not a bird who socialises with other species of birds or comes too close to human dwellings. When the avian environment is disturbed, some birds feel distressed and change their behaviour for survival and adaptation.
The delightful part of the morning was how a Myna before it started feeding from the food tray, sat at its brim and continued its bird calls to invite other birds for the feeding.
Other birds arrived on hearing the bird calls of the Myna.
What was surprising was how Myna moved out to the root stand while it allowed the other birds to feed!
I found the morning time in the garden a refreshing experience, where the birds practice mindfulness and awareness of the needs of the others.
It occurs at a time when Russia is intensifying its attack on the Ukrainian territory, and the casualties in Gaza due to the attack of Israel is only increasing. The Manipur ethnic violence is intensifying and it is now eighteen months since it erupted.
We live in a contrasting world. The birds demonstrate attentiveness to the needs of others. The human fraternal attitude is replaced by violent streaks and intentional harm for others in certain parts of the world. I am currently in the north east region and happened to hear distressing stories of lives of people in Manipur, who have been caught in the ethnic strife. The stories of women and children, who suffer violence is heart rending.
The recent protest by a parliamentarian in NewZealand during its session, from the native community and the subsequent protest by the native people in the street bring to the surface the unresolved tension between the natives and settlers.
I found that the birds were messengers of peace in our garden. All birds found a place in the garden ar at the feeding station!
It is a call to pursue for peace!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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