I'm not an ornithologist, and apart from keeping an odd parrot or macaw in my home or enjoying the sounds of parrots and white owls at my ancestral place, I've never delved very deeply into the subject. That is, till a month back, when a pair of eagles made a nest right outside my bedroom on the 5th floor and had a baby.
For the past month they were a pest! We couldn't open our window or even step out into the balcony. So fierce were their parental instincts that the moment we stepped out, they would circle around and attack us. They even scared off my Beagle a couple of times he ventured out. We were terrorised! They would guard their baby round the clock, taking turns and shriek their heads off all day!
Last evening, the baby suddenly died, probably due to some infection. This morning, around 5: 30 AM, I heard what I can only describe as the 'crying' of the parent eagles. It was a 'cry' which only a parent can understand. I have heard their shrieks incessantly for the past month, but this was different. They 'cried' for about 20 minutes and left. Never to return. They had made the nest for their baby, without the baby, perhaps they had no need for it.
A nest, a house, is made of materials or bricks and mortar, if we have nobody in it who we can care about, or who cares about us, it's not a home, it's an empty void.
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