🪟🎶 Haiku! 🥁 Poem by Rajitha K.S. Ayyappan

4) The jungle babbler is a common resident breeding bird in most parts of the Indian subcontinent and is often seen in gardens within large cities as well as in forested areas.

3) the birds that peck at the window-glasses and the car-windows are another species: the jungle babblers. Kariyilakkili or pootthamkuruvi in Malayalam

2) woodpeckers as a species stay away from men (and of course women) , at least in my village. I have not come across them in the cities I lived

Good. In my compound, I find dozens of wood-peckers. But none comes near my house, leave alone ‘flutter their wings on the window panes'