One morning I found my father resting on his favourite sofa. He looked at me and said in a serious voice, “If I show you something, will you tell the whole world about it?”
I suddenly felt a little worried, but I said okay. My father got up and took me outside to the curry tree in the garden. Then he pointed at a nest with two baby birds inside. It was quite a magical sight. They were “merbah” birds, or bulbul.
The curry tree stood outside my bedroom window in plain sight, but I didn’t see the nest until that day.
I managed to take a couple of shots with my 35mm lens, which wasn’t easy. A few days later the nest was empty. The baby birds found their ability to fly and flew away.
After that I spotted another bird’s nest in our jackfruit tree.
It’s magical to have the birds living so closely and freely around us, uncaged.
“If I show you something, will you tell the whole world about it?”
“Birds” is one of twelve stories featured in After The Rain: Number 2. Print magazine and ebook available now.
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