Birds 14 - Red Whiskered Bulbul

We have a compound full of trees and shrubs with flowers and fruit spread around our house. Every morning I wake up to the melodious musical rendition by birds numerous, an experience beyond words! One morning, at the first rays of sun as I got out of the house to pick up my newspapers, I was stopped by the melody of a call "pleased to meet you"! Hearing the bird call familiar looked up at the roof of the porch, on the hanging light overhead I noticed her "double head", where she had built her nest far from the reach of Pest, my pet cat and had laid eggs, and now sitting in incubation. Red Whiskered Bulbul has a tall pointed black crest, red face patch like whiskers and a thin black moustachial line. Common in the plains of Kerala, this bulbul has brown upper-parts whitish underparts with buff flanks a dark spur running onto the breast. A frugivore, the bulbul likes to inhabit close to human habitats often nests on the roof and trees feed on fruits, insects and nectar. In just ten days or so the eggs will hatch and with tiny bundles of joy the nest will be adorned, another fortnight, the chicks will fly off, she will not stay back in the nest any longer.