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Savita Bharti - My home, neighbourhood and fields @ Survey No 164 Behind Gurudwara, Lohegaon Pune 47 Behind Gurudwara, Lohegaon Pune Maharashtra

This column is most helpful to report what i want to! There is(was recently we took out home for renovation in Nov 11 and the pair had to leave)a pair nesting in our home for past 3-4 years. I have never bothered to observe the nesting cycle but remember coming home from office and the female flying in chirping loud for attention and some food. I normally would keep some rice grains on the fridge. At times if I forgot to talk or give the bird (female sparrow) some grains she would follow me to my room. Sit on the tubelight and make loud noise. Its only after putting grains (bread crumbs, cooked rice or chapati) that the bird would "mind" her business (of feeding her young ones)How she happened to be an attention seeker is another story. Once she sat on the vessel kept on burner for cooking. We were too afraid that she would burn herself so we give the grains the moment she demanded it. In hall, where i would normally sit and have dinner, she would hop around to have some more food. She would also help us by eating all insects caught in the cob webs, esp near tubelight. Though both parents took equal part in feeding the young ones, the male sparrow was more of an outside man, getting insects (larva) from the fields and the female keeping herself to cooked food/insects from inside our home. They would feed babies until we would switch off the lights (around 12 am or so) Morning the routine began with the first light of day break.