Each of these birds is a resident in our garden.
We can find them somewhere in and around our cottage.
Usually these are the birds which are comfortable to be near human dwellings.
Their habits and rituals are fairly constant. They move between their different resident stations through the day. They are single birds as of now.
The barbet stays in the garden because it has found enough fruits in the garden, papaya, gauva, banana, chikoo, etc.
The Racket tailed drongo likes smaller trees and shrubs. There are plenty of them in the garden.
The crow-pheasant likes to stay hidden and move between shrubs and grass on the ground. So our garden is a good choice for its residence.
But what strikes me is how each bird follows its own.ritual without disturbing the others.
That is a habit I suspect humans are almost losing. The conflicts in different part of the world is between communities of different ethnicity. Although advanced in civilisation, the ancient barbaric spirit of overcoming others or displacing or eliminating them is at work.
I know this as a prevalent attitude among medical professionals. The professionals compete with each other so much that there is jealousy and undercutting of each other!
I wish the human instinct would grow to be, 'each for the other'!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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