The Big Bird….
…dropped the huge head of some big fish in our backyard.
Luci found it but I kicked it away yelling at her.
(Yeah I can yell. Experience my dears, with bringing up two Martians)
The first-born picked the smelly piece, threw it high on the sun-shade of the nearest window.
Big Bird meanwhile made several rounds in the sky, searching for its lost prize.
It failed to locate the catch lying on top of the sunshade.
Some keen eye-sight you have Big Bird!
Suddenly Big Bird swooped down to perch on a metal bar.
It first looked left….
then straight ahead…
and finally turned to the right…
In a (to us) surprise move, Big Bird landed on the ground.
picked up a stone
and flew away…..!
Huh?
Building a nest perhaps??
Shail's Nest 
I wish I could have seen Luci’s face when you yelled and kicked it away 🙂
She thinks its playtime when I yell at her! 😐
Amazing pictures.
Equally amazing is the fact that the bird picked up a stone.
Is it a nest or a house that the bird is planning?
Or perhaps it plans to drop that stone on somebody?
Bird shit was perhaps not effective enough.
Just wondering.
Regards
GV
Lol, GV, you had me laughing with your comment about it wanting the stone to drop on someone’s head in place of bird-shit. Haha.. I just hope it is not my head!
There are a few of them who have made their nests on top of nearby coconut trees. Sometimes they swoop down to sit on nearby walls but fly away by the time I re-enter the picture with my camera. This time I got my chance. 🙂
Wow what a story in pictures!! What would a bird need a stone for???
I really am clueless. Do they use stones in nest-building?! 🙄
Probably it is one of those sad stories. The birds mistake this object for an wood piece. The stone was yellowish and they easily mistake it that way. A lot of modern construction activity makes the birds lose their habitat and often find them hurting themselves. E.g woodpecker don’t find branches to peck and do it on some pole which they mistake it for wood :((
Welcome to Shail’s Nest and thank you Anil 🙂 Oh that’s very sad. 😦 I tried googling to find if these birds used stones in their nest or something, but could not find anything to the effect.
.and I forgot to say- its a nice catchy story
Most probably it would have wanted to have a drink
and would have seen the water in the pitcher sink.
By dropping this stone it would bring the leevl to the brink
You would have read this stories in school I think
I know, I know, you feel it’s time for me to see a shrink.
🙂
Haha! Yeah, how could I not remember the story! So now the kite follows the crow-routine of using pebbles to raise the level of water in the pitcher! 😛