Taking care of injured visitor

Charan told that a pigeon was found near the gutter in the school, unable to fly owing to injuries in the feather. It was crawling near the gutter to safeguard itself from dog and other birds of prey attack. Some of his class mates took it to the class teacher and the students gave some food... boiled rice to it..Though injured it was lively and having the will to survive as it cheerfully eat whatever the children offered to it. Before returning back home the kids, kept the Pigeon in the locker..which is having enough space for air and kept some more food for overnight.

Yesterday, Charan took some wet and conditioned wheat and bajra and a shoe box to bring the pigeon home for further treatment. It appears the other kids also happy to give the pigeon from school locker to charan for taking care of the injured pigeon.  We kept that fellow in a box with water and food, near the love birds nest... The pigeon seems to be happy with the new friends and started moving here and there. Also the regular pigeons came through the balcony and greeted the injured fellow...

a pic - posing for the camera... injured but not out!!!!

monsoon clouds and South India

a dream come true trip

The Great Indian Monsoon is quite a fascination for me since my childhood. I used to watch the skies of Chennai when I was a kid..and over a period of time, I could recognize, when it could rain by observing the cloud pattern and the  movement of clouds .. I used to tell my mother whether it will rain or not on any particular day, though it could be a cloudless and sunny day..

Many times as per  my forecast it used to rain in the evening and my mother used to wonder, how I could predict the rain correctly in the morning itself...of course many times, my forecasting goes wrong also...My mother used to tease me to become a weather reporter!!!!

Also one of childhood dream was to see the first arrival of monsoon, the first hitting of monsoon on June 1st at the tip of kerala coast..


fortunately my dream came true this year.. I visited Kerala/ Cape on June 1st,  the first day of monsoon hitting the Indian Sub-continent for 2013.. covered Trivandrum, Kovalam, Kanyakumari, Cape, Nagarkoil, papanasam, tenkasi, kuttralam,..just the western side of southern tip as well as the leeward-rainshadow region of western ghats.. some pictures to share..