Who
is the one who makes the Real Twit?
In
Twitter parlance which Ceylonese bird makes the real twit sound?
I
am not good at distinguishing various chirpy chips of our birds.
There
are plenty of different types of Munias (Battchittas) that make a lot
of noise.
Identifying
the one who really makes a twit is very difficult.
They
avoid direct eye contact and disappear the moment one focuses on them and
hide under leaves.
Today
I spotted two of them alone in our rooftop garden.
They
are the tiniest of the lot.
They
are the ones who made a nest in our rooftop garden which was left to
wilderness (I was busy or had gone abroad, may be) sometime ago.
They
are the ones who attacks the big birds without fear.
They
are the ones with golden brown feathers with soft white underbelly.
The
black variety (I call the paddy birds) does not twit but are very chirpy
nevertheless.
It
was hide and seek.
I
was listening to the twit hiding behind the plastic gate.
Waited
for sometime to locate the direction and found two on the roof.
Within
seconds they disappeared and I could hear the alarming twit to its
buddy at a distance.
They come to feed on the fruits of the mulberry
trees.
I have three on pots and they have plenty of fruits. The big
birds never come down to that level and tiny tots have a leisurely
feed.
The
mulberry trees need lot of water otherwise they shrivel away.
I
have been doing that during the torrid time.
They rain is long overdue.
