Dehradun, March 29 -- Black Swan

And why is that, you wonder? Well, because there are infinitely more birds than humans in this beautiful continent!

They have the run of the land and the right of way. Go for a walk at any given time of the day and you come across waddling Australian shelducks and swans, strutting magpies and even Australian black ravens, flocks of pink and white galahs, all over, in gardens, in roundabouts and even on walking pathways. Aren't the pathways meant for us humans, I ask myself bemusedly as I nimbly step aside to let a pair of black swans waddle past me. You think they'd be scared of us humans. Isn't that what happens in India? Our birds are shy, maybe even frightened and one is lucky if they sit on a branch ...