AraiGordai in Thailand

Prime nesting ground for rent

in the past four months, my balcony has been a hot spot for home maker birdies. they like my dead tree. they do because they picked the dead one instead of the -almost dead one right next to it. that sort of disclosed my misdeeds doesn't it. yes, i didn't do a good job on feeding the tree, see, last year i'm away from the condo a lot.. and there's no rain. and it is not easy to get out there and i was too busy to notice it dieing.. and it kinda look artzie being dead.. and it's a good symbolic statement to helps remind me of my own motality and.. ok. sorry tree, i am so careless with the watering reutine. that's not the point.

the birds digg my dead tree. plus the fact that my unit is right at the end of the building. the adjacent condo is unoccupied and i'm hardly in the condo. that spells 'good security' in bird language. i consulted dr. doolittle. so birdies do learn about marketing framework. there's the product (dead tree good strong branch), price (free), place(perfect), privacy(they sure don't want to promote this), people(the less the better). anyhow, my balcony definately qualify for as a prime nesting ground.

there has been two birdie families so far that has occupied this nest. they were so cute, i enjoyed watching them built, hatching and feeding the lil one. what i didn't see is when the little one learn how to fly. it seems like they just took off. now they all have left and nest is all torned up by other birds taking the material for their new home. maybe cuz i'm home much more frequent, the last "p" didn't fit.

many bird came to check out the spot, but recently, the pigeons also came. Call me a bird racist, but i don't like pigeon, they leave nasty shit everywhere and when they fly up i feel like they farted out large volume of air - fume full of nasty germs. so i've been chasing them away. although i must say i am a bit amazed to see that these pigeon actually made effort to fly up here. most bangkok pigeon i see they just walk on the street. i mean they prefer walking than flying. they actually think they can out walk homosapians that have legs 20 times longer than them. they look like chicken that (unless really, truely, necessary) can fly.

today i have potential customer. this one in the photo was here for a good ten minutes, inspecting the future property. plenty of time for me to take a few shots. i was less than a meter from it. see, it doesn't know, i'm on the darker side of glass door and there's this bamboo screen in between. so during the day, they can only see the bamboo and their reflection. that's how i can i do my national geographic moment. i should have had this e1 sooner. i couldn't take picture of the feeding process from the previous family because my point and shoot cam will only focus on the bamboo screen, no manual focus like the dSLR.

the above image is not the same type of bird that built this nest, the builder are much smaller type with longer beek. the picture below is with the mommy inside the nest. tough to see it but you can spot the long black beek. darn i miss'em.

posted by AraiGordai @ 10:52 AM