Fwd: :-) Fwd: [hopethane] 'Music Concert of Morning Ragas' and a 'Drama' at our garden in Bengaluru

[Maya Mahajan]

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From: ulhas <ulha...@gmail.com>

 

Dear All

 

This has been the most wonderful Vasant Rutu and Holi Festival in our garden since the last ten days. 

 

There is a daily festival of 'Morning Ragas' and a 'Drama' in our garden in North Bengaluru.

 

We always have resident and visitor Red-whiskered Bulbuls.  They come in pairs, family or singly.  They nest, produce their progeny, fly away. 

 

They visit us intermittently, bathe in the bird-bath, feed on the berries, disperse seeds, control insects and are our faithful 'gardeners'. 

 

They keep singing the typical tune "Pleased to meet you"!, as Salim Ali has described. 

 

And while doing this provide us tremendous entertainment throught the day.

 

However this time we have a unique addition!  There is a 'Tansen Bulbul' visiting us regularly around 6.00 am.  He perches himself in the top branches of Sandal tree.  Does not eat fruits but keeps singing continuously with his wonderful and unique melodies (not the usual typical bulbul tunes) for around 30 minutes, non-stop!  Then he flies off to return only next morning to begin his daily concert.  We wonder whether this 'Tansen' will find his mate in spite of such wonderful 'Morning Ragas' since the 'normal' female bulbuls may not understand his 'classical music'!  We have to wait and watch while enjoying the concert every morning.  This 'Tansen' has also displaced our regular bulbuls during the morning session.  The regular bulbuls arrive only after 11.00 am now a days.

 

As I get to my exercise routine on the terrace after this concert, I witness another 'Drama' on and around our neighbouring Coconut Tree.  We always have a lot of Kites all around.  Usually they nest in Mahogony trees around the Boulevard Garden in our Colony.  It has been my routine to watch them hovering high up in the sky at different levels selected by different pairs for courting, playing, gliding and whistling in that high-pitch wail-like call.

 

This year one pair has selected the Coconut Tree near us for their nest.  Their 'Drama' starts around 7.00 am when both the birds hover around the tree, occassionlly perch on the top fronds, scream and be watchful.  They have now accepted me as their 'well wisher' and are not bothered with my presence, howeve they keep looking at me perhaps checking whether I am doing my exercises properly or not!  Then around 7.30 they start their nest building activitiy.  This is a very slow and painful process with a lof of patience.  One bird comes with a stick from somewhere and keeps hovering around the tree for a long time.  Perhaps he / she does not want to go directly to the nesting site as a defence strategy.  Ultimately that stick goes into a niche within the fronds, somewhere not visible to me yet.  The flutters around the fronds for quite sometime making loud, scary sounds.  By this time the second bird keeps hovering above keeping alert vigil.  Then it is a turn of the second bird to get a stick.  Sometimes sticks are quite long, whereas sometimes they are small.  I watch this 'Drama' till 8.30 am when I finish my exercise routine.  I keep going to the terrace intermittently during the day.  The 'Drama' goes on mainly in the morning session.  Then I think it is rest and leisure time for both of them, may be even 'wining and dining'!  They do not roost on the Coconut Tree yet.  The exciting 'Act' of the 'Drama' is yet to start and we are eagerly awaiting to witness it from the 'front seat'.

 

These are very very 'personalised' shows and we are enjoying them.

 

We are sorry, you cannot join in!  But we will share the experiences with you all, intermittently.

 

Perhaps you may find similar 'Concerts' and 'Dramas' in your own vicinity.

 

Best wishes!

 

Ulhas

 

Prof. Ulhas Rane
Director
Envirodesigners Pvt. Ltd.
'Brindavan', 227, Rajmahal Vilas Extn. II
HIG Colony, First Main Road
Bengaluru - 560 094
Phones: +919448149236, 918023417283
E-mail: ulha...@gmail.com, ul...@envirodesigners.com
Web: www.envirodesigners.com

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[Daisy Dias]

Appreciate the update.  Thanks.

 

 

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