19 July, 2025

Getting drenched together!

 


I watched the two Bulbuls above, perched in a coconut palm, about two hundred meters away in the garden when it was raining heavily! They appeared soaked in rain from a distance. 

I remember watching King fishers and Greater Coucal braving the rain  in our garden! 

The Bulbuls normally take shelter under foliage in rain!

I remember a keen bird watcher telling me that during courtship of birds, some birds want to affirm affinity to each other by demonstrating bravery and resilience. I wonder whether it was one such occasion. 

What intrigued me was their next step!




They were perched at the tip of a stem of a palm, getting swayed in the wind while it was still raining! 

The twenty minutes I was able to watch this pair of Bulbuls in these two  sites, offered me an insight into the equation between pairing birds. They test  fidelity and faithfulness !

The pathway for building marital relationship is through the discipline of  fidelity and faithfulness! 


M.C.Mathew(text and photo)


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