Some Bulbuls are pairs, who come to the feeding basin.
The pair of Bulbuls above kept taking turn to feed from the basin. At one stage, one Bulbul who was perched at the perch next to the feeding basin flew away.
The bird who was feeding in the basin noticed it and seemed disturbed. It stopped feeding and remained at the edge of the basin for a while and moved to the perch, looking lost and searching for its pair. I too looked around to see if it was anywhere in the vicinity!
In the early stage of courtship of birds such behaviours are common. They are yet to feel the loyalty strongly to stay together.
The families of Bulbuls who visit us in the garden leave with us some messages about the way avian behaviour is conditioned by many factors.
What impresses me most is their behaviour in the feeding station. Most Bulbuls who are in pairs take turns to feed and wait for each other.
After they are fed and satisfied some pairs perch in the cable above the feeding station and call out for others to come to feed. That is how more Bulbuls come to the feeding station.
As I watched this pair, make the bird calls and stay for a while, I wondered whether it is an instinctual behaviour! I do not know if they are intelligent enough to function consciously to feel for other birds! They are learned behaviours by habit which birds learn from each other.
Whatever it might be, conditioned behaviour or conscious behaviour, Bulbuls left with me a message of fidelity between themselves while in courtship and consideration for other birds.
The thousands who returned to Gaza do not have shelter or food ! The president of the USA stopped all USAID activities. Instead it is asking the Palestinians to find asylum in neighbouring countries and leave Gaza permanently. What a state to come to!
We live in an environment when seeking self promotion is considered the way to succeed in life.
The message of self giving which was what was considered noble and normal gets subsumed by greedy passions of self promotion.
I wonder if oligarchy and autocracy will displace equity and democracy in the affairs of nations! The voice from the rulers of the USA, Russia, China and few other countries seems to be such a message, causing despair!
Let me present the following photo to remind us that we receive from the earth resources! Those resources are the rights of all ! The attitude to acquire for oneself, denying a weaker person the opportunity to have his or her share for wellness of life is injustice!
I wish justice will prevail and the nations of the world will be fraternal in giving and receiving!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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