Airport Sparrows

 
 
Airport Sparrows

There was a time when sparrows would chirp on the window sill of my apartment right from the dawn and sometimes even enter the room and quickly fly out. Seeing them always kept one engaged as they went about their job smartly and with an urgency.No longer.

Its been a long time since I have seen any sparrows in the city.

I was pleasantly surprised when i flew out of the new airport outside Hyderabad city the first time. There was this sparrow which was sliding on the polished floor of the airport nearer to where the food stalls were and pecking at the tiny bits of morsels dropped by the customers.At times it would slip and would flutter its wings to gain the balance.It looked as if it had made finding food a game!While this was the only sparrow I saw that day ,There may have been a few others in the other parts of the airport.

Maybe they were there because the airport came outside the city , where the sparrows had moved since they could not survive in the city due to myriad reasons including pollution.

I saw the same in Bangalore city airport when I was there recently.This time there were many of them sitting on a one of the large kiosks of a shopping centre which was facing a restaurent. They quickly swept down to the tables and pecked away at the food which was dropped on the tables, and quickly fly away only to repeat the same pattern again.

This led me to the conclusion that the sparrows had adapted themselves well in the newer airports which were a mini city by themselves, fully temperature controlled and pollution free.
The Sparrows were smart and had adapted themselves.