Aglaia Odorata (Chinese Perfume Plant) - new growth ! |
I suspect the baby birds may have hatched. This morning, the mother bird left the nest and was back in no time. She seemed to be in a feeding posture, standing over the nest with its beak moving left and right in rapid movements, before settling down agin. The last couple of weeks the mother bird had been sitting diligently on its nest ...and I envy its patience ! Can you imagine sitting still day after day......? The bird nest is rather high up on the mango tree, and I dare not venture too near since I do not want to frighten the mother bird. The puzzle is - where is the father bird?
It certainly is a nice feeling to know that birds are breeding so my garden is now officially a bird 'sanctuary' :- ) ! I noticed that different birds are visiting these days as well, this morning there was this small yellow bird with the long beak feeding on the papaya flowers. I hope I get to see more birds and their nests in future. I just love to listen to their songs.
Beautiful Papaya Flowers |
Somehow after the young lady left with the papaya leaves, she left behind a good feeling within me, that I was able to provide her with something from the garden. However this incident also reinforced to me that I should be more vigilant about removing stagnant water retained on the flower pot plates after a rainfall. I certainly do not want to be the perpetrator for mosquitoes breeding and causing harm to someone! Also it occurred to me that perhaps I should be growing plants with medicinal value in case one day someone comes searching. That was what my mother said when I asked her why she was growing all those herbs when she had no use for them. She would read those Chinese magazines and newspaper articles on herbs, then when she saw any of the plants sold in the market she would buy and plant them.
Leaves cut for a good cause |
Update : 31st August 2011 : In today's paper I saw this article " Doc: Papaya leaves can cure dengue" (check out this linkhttp://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/8/31/nation/9402609&sec=nation). Interesting ... !
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