Since we bought this land in 2004 at Chettikad, we keep some space for the nature. One of these spots is the biotope behind the pond in the garden on the west of the house. We don‘t touch this wilderness in order to provide a place for all the living creatures here. Many of them we don‘t see as four turtles and the frogs in the water, but a variety of birds we can watch in the trees and along the pond as kingfisher, woodpecker, kakadu, uppan, hummingbird and many more, of course a lot of crows, which up in the sky chase krishna-eagles or other big birds away.
Kingfishers come every day to catch small fish from Sylviander House pond. Once there were four of them in the same moment, once a couple made a nest at the shore. So we can spend hours sitting on the veranda without boredom. And of course there is a permanent concert made by these birds.
In the morning sitting with hot tea on the morning tea veranda to the East, birds and butterflies in the cashew-nut tree are very active. In the night the sound of night-birds flies with our dreams and next morning we wake up with the voices of the birds and of the nearby sea.
Kingfisher is sitting for hours on a dry branch waiting for the rain stops.
A very rare visitor! A friend of us who is an expert guessed: Shikra - Accipiter badius
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