In the first photos I took the first day of the Gateway of India, you may have notices some marks on the pavement. They are actually birds. Thousands of them. Mostly crows and pigeons. They are everywhere. Sarah thinks that this is what Trafalgar Square must be like.
For those who think I'm getting all Instagram on my photos, you'd be wrong. There is a mesh outside our windows to give it that textured effect.
On the other side of the hotel, is a private garden with the swimming pool. When the hotel first opened, this side was the entrance, and the garden was a big sweeping driveway, that brought carriages up to the entrance. That entrance is now the veranda I've been sitting on.
All over the walls, particularly those in a brief moment of transitory shade, these birds park themselves to look down on our goings on. Occasionally, something will disturb them, and off they go, swooping and swirling in a cloud of wings. But not for long. They will soon settle again, perhaps on a tree, perhaps on the fountain in the corner.
What surprises Sarah, is that they do not disturb the paying guests. People have breakfast down here. Afternoon tea. Anywhere else and you would be reenacting scenes from Hitchcock. But not here. Obviously the Taj birds go through the same etiquette training as their wingless counterparts.
Here's a shot I found online. There are squillions of these little flockers.
But look at the size of the head!!! What are they thinking?
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