This is my weekend corner . The place where I wait every weekend – Saturday and Sunday while Ruby and Pearl take their key board and music classes respectively .
To my left in level with the balcony is a mango tree which is always bustling with chirping sparrows , sun birds ( adakka kuruvi ), bulbuls, mag pies, and wag tails .
In front of the balcony are two banyan trees which are frolicked by flocks of parrots and magpies . And when they bear fruits the number is just increased by double . It is almost one year now since I started to watch them .
I enjoy the silence here . I use the time to catch up with my Sis and Bro , to pester my friends with phone calls and messages , to read books , to plan my week ahead and to make silly notes like these .
Pearl comes in between during the break to check on me . Most of the parents ( ie. real people who are concerned about their child’s education )prefer to sit inside the classroom in a corner, like prisoners to see if their wards are learning the lessons properly or more possibly to check if the teacher is taking thee classes properly . And love it that I get this place to myself I don’t care to enlighten them 
image courtesy - google search
Right now a green bird just flew away from my side 
( from google I found out its name is ‘blue winged leaf bird’ , but in my mother tongue we call it ‘pachapanamthatha’ the sweetest of birds ). And a sparrow is chirping sweetly from the branches of the mango tree 
I am not risking a snap of the birds as they keep on hoping from branches to branches . I am afraid I may lose my guard and end up on the ground trying to chase them . Now only my pen fell down through the rails .
Right down is a soda filling station and two small girls are enjoying some bottles they sneaked out from there . They are staring upwards to see who threw the pen at them .
Oooh!! Finally I got a sparrow in focus . But , I have got company here . A boy has come to the terrace of the adjacent building with a funky looking mobile in his hand . By the looks of it he has come to check who this mad woman is , busily taking down notes and clicking photos of their house .
He is clad completely in black and I wonder if he is Mafia king or just another Swami . He is trying hard not to give out that he is looking what I am doing . Ah !!!May be they don’t have a license for the soda unit or are doing some other dark business there . I wonder if they would set some body to ‘sketch’ me
By this time Pearl is back from her classes and I move on . My only worry is that classes are only for one hour
haha..akka..lovely post..u’ll never change..i grew up seeing u wandering all over achiyamma’s ayyam in search of birds n new plants..now u changed the venue..thtz it..loved alot reading it..
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That is some connection I didn think about 
Mongoe tree.. reminds me of our house back home in india we had 3 mangoes trees yummy …
the little bird look beautiful the sparrow..
do you take your camera with you everywhee
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Bikram’s
Thank you Bikram
It seems you miss your Mother land a lot and you had a great childhood here
I hear mangoes from Punjab are very sweet
I selected a sleek camera so that I can carry it around
YEs i love my country along being motherland.. my own mother is there … I had a blast in my childhood pity we have to grow up.. i wish i can go back to that time …
yes mangoes are juicy here and what can be better then climbing the tree and having them FRESH..
U hv written it so well
It ws almost like u decribed my kitchen balcony where I spend a lot of me-time too 
Thanks Swaram
Ooh ! I don’t have any place in this house where I can really have some me time . Of course if you don’t consider the time in front of my lap!!:P
Oh this is soooooooo lovely, Ash. I am so envious now!!!!!
I seriously envy the view of the bridge and the swans in the river you have there
Ahhh, this sounds just like my kind of spending time!! Imaginations working over time (your wondering if its a soda factory at all) too
Lol, how I can relate to that. Btw why does our pachapanamthatha have a blue tag in its name in English??! 
It seems ‘Panamthatha ‘ falls in the subdivision of leaf birds . Two species are found in Kerala and both have a blue tint on its wings . I have also noted the bluishgreen tint on the wings . I did not find any correct translation though !!
Will let you know 
I know another fellow blogger Shirley @ Enrichingthekid, who is also an ardent bird watcher . I was thinking of checking with her
I have one other doubt . Ruby says the small birds we say every where in Kerala are humming birds and not Sun birds . He says sun birds only feed on insects and won’t take nectar . Do you know anything about it ?
I have to receive a small panamthatha today.But i dont know what the bird eating.Please help me friends. Itr urgent. Otherways the bird dead