Note photographs are taken by different people and credited duly. None of them have been edited. The first one will be entered for Click! by Raghavan (Latha’s son, Lakshmi’s brother).
The most beautiful eggs that for us as a family are eggs like these – mini ovals laid every mating season by budgerigars who live with us in an aviary in Raghavan’s (people meet Latha’s son and Lakshmi’s brother) balcony.
Home, Sweet Home – Photo by Raghavan using an Olympus FE220 – to be entered for Click!
Perhaps not as artistic as Sharmi’s or as creative as Jai’s but for us these are far far far more beautiful than any eggs in the whole wide world.
Our budgerigars love laying eggs in pots – we have a pot for each pair in our aviary, it’s their home to sometimes sleep and most of the time to lay eggs. Over the years there has been a population explosion of sorts which we have handled by converting more people into bird enthusiasts. Contrary to popular perception of pet birds being caged creatures with no rights, our birds love being with us- we’ve had birds like Hiraman who once flew out of the aviary, said a cursory “hi” to the neighbours and flew right back into the aviary and we’ve had birds like “Kular” who refused to eat and pined away to death after we left her at a friend’s house when we moved out of Delhi. Our birds have all the space , love and attention they need and the cage becomes a means of protection rather than confinement.
It’s a delight to watch the eggs hatch, watch the babies grow….
Where is my “daana”? Photo by Latha using an Olympus FE220
Watch my brother give them a bath, play with them…
“See I have grown blue feathers”, Photo by Lakshmi using Nokia 6300
“I love taking chellam”, Photo by Lakshmi using Nokia 6300
Watch a baby cuddle up to him…
“And I love climbing up Anna”, Photo by Lakshmi using Nokia 6300
And watch them grow to……..well, lay more eggs!!!
It’s simply beautiful 🙂
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very nice pics. their feet are quite long in comparison to the rest of the body when they are young ! budgerigar hmm… got to look them up sometime. thanks.
–jai
wow…they look so cute and wonderful…Lakshmi when you told me about your brother and his hobby I am really amazed…i really wanted to see the birds…thanks for giving this opportunity…he has a great hobby and real patience….great entry…
wow……The post rocked……..I am fascinated by ur cute chicklets…..:-)
Latha, tell Raghu it’s very nice to meet him!!:))
They let you touch them! How beautiful! Glad he took these photos. We don’t really participate to win but have some fun while we are at it. This is great entry if you ask me!
That chick is sooo cute!!
Lovely Lakshmi… Indeed these are the most beautiful eggs ever.. and the chicklet is sooooo cute..:)… and say hi to Raghu..:D
Beautifull Pics Lakshmi. Loved the chicklet.
You know something Lakshmi, you said it yourself so well ” its Simply beautiful ” And you are so right,anything which is a creation of live and affection is always beautiful,so is the post and so say the pictures.
Beautiful pics of eggs and the chick. The story of kular was touching. Those are some lucky birds to have such nice and caring parents.
lovely
Loved the cute cute pics!!:)
A great Hi to Raghu 🙂
Lakshmi, so cute and its beautiful indeed!!!
When I first saw Lathamma’s comment on my CLICK post saying you cannot click eggs because you dont eat it, was wondering if you can try to click some eggs from grocery stores to participate in this event. But nothing more wonderful than this could happen. Loved to see that lil chicklet playing around with your bro!
Oh, how precious!
I envy people who have an affinity with birds – I seem to scare even the tame ones 😦
Wow Beautiful pic
Beautiful!
Wonderful pict..Chick is very cute..
Lovely pics Lakshmi, love the chick..so cute! 🙂
The pictures are so adorable!
Thanks for sharing!
So your brother is also inducted into the gang? 😉
lovely birds and gr8 hobby. wanna pet couple of birds too.
thats sooooooooo cute!!!
awww…so cute! 🙂
lovely pics….
so cute 🙂 thats wonderfull if my daughter sees them she would have loved it.
nice meeting your brother Raghu
The chickie looks so cute 🙂
That is uber cute!
thanks for sharing!
here we are trying to come out with various animated looks for eggs, and ther u are with the most realistic touch of it..!!!…great thought…
That is so cute…I love how your blog is a total family thing
first i thought it was some egg dish..so did not bother looking into…but i am so glad i did…adorable..that is so sweet
So cute they are. Viji
Cho chuweet…
What a cute little chick !
Love the sweet little baby! I seem to attract parrots toward me, whenever I am in India, parrots will fly to me in the most unimaginable way! When I what’ve a bath, there are no less than 3 parrots at the window!
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