Hungry and still

Hungry and still Originally uploaded by Pallavi Barua.

This morning I captured this. I have this visitor everyday and well, it is not scared of us as its been born in the nest made by his parents in our guest bathroom sills. Now that bathroom being Rocky’s den, where he sits and reads his bike mags and thinks his thoughts and possibly smokes his smokes.. or whatever, they are lets say poo buddies.. It was just one fine day that we found two eggs nursed by two parents on that sill. Excited though we were like any other parents, we watched it carefully till one egg hatched. The other one was spoilt so it was thrown off the nest by the caring parents.. When we looked at the baby it was an ugly critter. We saw it grow and well as it grew, it became the poo buddy for Rocks and though this baby pooed a lot and dirtied my sill, I am sure, he was glad to have a companion once in a day.. hahaha !! So anyway, the day came when it was time for him to fly and well we did nudge him and off it went never to return again or so we thought. The news spread about this new nesting area and we had some pairs coming to inspect the nest and well we saw how dirty our bathroom was and pushed the nest away.. But surprise surprise, whenever it rains or some strong wind blows, this bird crouches in the same place where he was born and stays put. Security I guess. And morning time is his feed time. He will just come and stare at me sitting still till I give him his due.. Day before, he was there again at the bathroom window sill and Dad caught him from behind and this one did not even bother to flinch… Talk about extreme confidence or extreme stupidity… Sigh wish I could tell this bugger not to trust us humans so.. It only will make a meal of of this beautiful boyd.. If you like plays, do go for this.

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Food thoughts… This is someone whom I really admire.. She cooks the way I would like to cook… Fast and tasty and make anything out of anything.. I have become a fan of her shows.. You can catch her show in Travel and Living Channel.

From my fast to cook kitchen

• In non vegetarian, you can try this Prawn Curry
• In vegetarian you can try A Colocassia Side Dish.