some time back i read an article about the ravens.
it was observed that they can count upto three;
they can distinguish between
a shot gun and a shovel and such things.
the naturalists were thoroughly impressed; they
would not have been, had they seen the P_bird!
the P_bird, or rather the P_birds for there are a group of them
are professionals. some operate during the night only, some
restrict themselves to daytime missions while there are real stalwarts
that operate during day and night.
they are a very coveted possession and here is a link
to a picture
of one of them.
these birds, all of them, are extremely "intelligent"
( of course, like all gentry in
thiruvananthapuram ) that they should
go down in the annals of natural history.
strangely though, they have a special liking for me.
within a short period of my shifting my residence to a particuar
locality in trivandrum the whole flock will crowd over there!
and sing
"lullabies" throughout the day and night.
the bad ( should it be spelt with an m rather than b ? )
character that i am, i dont like being lulled.
(another group that did not appreciate the prostitute birds
were the local crows and in the initial stages,
flights of them can be seen chasing the
hapless pbird out of their territory.)
so i purchased an air gun and the P_birds soon realised that i am
not a bad shot - some of the members of the gang got killed.
the extremely intelligent P_birds started keeping away from my compound during the
day time for these brilliant birds know that i cannot
aim and shoot after dusk; at least not with an ordinary air-gun
like the one your most obedient servant has.
however during the night the music went on with a vengeance
in full chorus at odd intervals.
later i shifted to a new locality where unlike the manual labourers
in the neighbourhood of my earlier residence the neighbours are
rather rich. at the new place the nightly chorus was not there initially.
the intelligent P_bird knows that they cannot
afford to disturb the sleep of the rich guys!
recently they have started the night time shriekings in this locality as well;
the reason probably is that yours faithfully was provoking them
very badly:
may be the rich men have agreed to the P_birds'
request to oblige them. and
some of these rich men ( and women for that matter ) even pretend
that they enjoy the music. and the music is played at certain specific hours
and not continuously as in the older location.
as a part of normal diplomacy i never used to resort to cross-border
firing. the P_birds were taking advantage of this fact. so now a days i am
incurring a bit of air space violation
and had shot down a good number of the P_birds. the only
snag was that the bodies fell in foreign territory
and i could not pick them up
as trophies nor could i photograph them. a couple of them were not dead when they fell down
and scrambled across the border and i lost them as well - a pity indeed.
some of the photographs are here with me and i am putting them on the net
for the "naturalists " to see.
the link below will take you to the first of a series of picture of my "victims"
if there is some life
left in any of the P_birds when they fall in my hands i really do torture them!
do you think i should be be taken to task by the SPCA? (please ring up 2553242)
or better still could it be taken as just another evidence that i am mentally ill?
what do you say mrs. sujatha ?
ViceMan
050330
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