Indoor moments can be fun at times!
A pigeon waits for that opportune moment when you've left the window partly open, and flies into your room only to head for the slab above, even if it meant pushing the curtain away with its beak.
All your pleas to leave fail to get those mercy looks from the bird. What do you do then? Show gestures, to indicate the way out, Air India Maharaja style. It will not budge.
The next thing, play around with the window shutters a little. This time it knows there is some trouble in waiting. So when you make space for the winged guest to leave, it obliges. And hops to the window sill, perches on the grill ahead, and flies away.
Pigeon mornings in this part of my colony no longer begin at forlorn spaces. These days they flock to the inner walls of the storm water drain near my building. With the water turning to just a trickle after rains, they love its cool in the day, when these buildings shade over the drain.
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Pigeons in my colony have grown smart over the months. Yesterday afternoon, they perched themselves outside the curtain to check for any noise from this room. In careful movements, they moved to the window sill just behind the curtain. A pigeon partly pushed the curtain to check for perils if any. What this one and its friend were not aware of, is that I was watching their silhouetted shadows clearly from my room.
When the bird tried to move in, all I said is, `No', like a teacher chides her student! Can you believe the pigeon moved back in as many steps? And came by again to check on the noise! I repeated the `No'. Now it gave up. And flew away. Its fellow pigeon waiting flew after it.
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