Campus fauna

I am posting this when I have loads of other things to do. 3 assignments and an exam fast approaching. But, this is the best time to blog.

Woke up today and opened the door to find a sparrow on the floor, right outside my room. I find mornings quite musical if I pay attention to the chirping of these birds. I always wonder what they try to communicate. This particular one was quite busy. It was making frequent trips from the grill to the fuse box, then it would fly off somehwere and reappear in less than a minute.Then I started thinking about all the animals around us on campus. There are so many of them: sparrows, butterflies, bees, dogs, lizards, mosquitoes, frogs, squirrels, dragonflies etc.

Sparows here are pretty brave. They have built their nests at places that are quite risky, they venture into the mess without fear, they disturb classes if the need be.

I think it was after reading 'The Alchemist' that I started observing butterflies. There are the regular orange and pale yellow ones along with the not so commom, bright red or blue coloured ones with wonderful patterns on their wings. The path through the guest house is full of them. It feels quite nice to spot some new pattern while walking to the class.

Then there are bees. This dumb bee which comes into my room every evening when I switch the light on, is particularly annoying. It must one of those residing in the huge hive on the lamp post in front of our wing.

Dogs aren't very comforting when they are barking and you are walking all alone, down a road at night. But otherwise they are okay.

Coming to lizards, I have seen the fattest and ugliest lizards here in IIIT. They have more than enough food here. There is that greyish-yellowish-brown one which is always around the wash basins in the bathroom, there is an exceptionally ugly one which has recently regrown its tail, there are 2-3 more living in the bathroom, and a few more that keep roaming around in the wing. I have no problems until they don't come inside my room. This fear of having a lizard in my room prevented me from opening the back window of my room for many months. But with the current hot weather, I've given up.

Mosquitoes, well as soon as I finish this post and go to bed, they'll be ready for their daily dose of blood. They have spoilt many nights when I could've slept peacefully. But my tendencies against all-out, odomos and mosquito-nets leaves me to their mercy.

Talking about frogs, I have actually seen very few frogs alive. I mostly find their corpses on the road. What a way to die, being crushed to death under a bike, poor things. But they don't seem to be learning from their mistakes. Every single day they lose a few a members of their community.

I'm sure there'll be some snakes also (I found a snake's skin once near the guest house). But at least there is no danger of leopards or anything.

Quite a pointless post, but then what the heck? Who wants to be sensible? At least not me.