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Chip-Chip - The Sparrow!! Hurrray!!!! After a long wait for a month & half,chip-chip have started visiting my place.Being inspired by Dilawar(The sparrow man,founder of Nature Forever Society),we have bought a nest box & feeder.I had installed it almost 2 months ago.But no sparrows appeared until 2days back(My husband's bday).Both of were so happy to see them perched on the nest box.It was a good gift 4 my hubby.I was ecstatic to see my kids running enthusiastically to see the birds as soon as they wake up in the morning from the next day. Their chirpy calls announce my day break.My day starts with watching these small cuties.A male & a female have started building their nest. The male has a gray crown, whitish check, and black throat. The bill and breast are black in summer and in winter the bill is yellow and the breast is gray.The female has a brown crown and a plain breast with a broad buff line over the eye. I think they have laid a few eggs as well. Everyday thes...
Back To School Vacations are over and its now time to be back to school.Wow!!It is a very pleasant sight to watch Aakriti,Greeshmi,Bhavesh,Meghna go to school.Bhavesh wakes us up as early as 5.30am with his loud cry.We live together in the same apartment.They have joined nursery class.Neatly ironed new uniforms, new shoes. Isn't is really very exciting.The smell of new books,uniform,shoes & socks... I wanna get back to my school. Meeting old friends after a long break,discussing about their hols was delightful.1 or 2 days just passed chit-chatting.New entrants were like aliens/strangers,staring at them and negligent to even say a "HI".It took almost 3-4 months to accept the new comers. I was always a back-bencher.Only one reason to be early to school on the re-opening day was to a find a good place in the back seat.Unfortunately, I had to take up the 1st row in my 12th standard as I was late on the 1st day.Only then I realized why the 1st benchers were the 'all-ti...