19 March 2021

Yellow-vented bulbul

There is a yellow-vented bulbul nest in one of my potted plants. I see the pair of parents flying to the nest daily. Bulbuls are, of course, rather shy.

Twenty years ago, we rescued a baby bulbul, we had tried to return it to the nest but it was too high up in the tree. Anyway, the bulbul grew up eating from my mother's hands. It grew up eventually. One day, it came back with a mate and visited us for the last time to say goodbye. We never did see the bulbul again.