Summer is a season of mangoes! At
the end of winter the mango trees in India starts to bloom following new shoot
of leaves and in less than a month the mango trees turns fruit-bearing. Mangoes
are considered delicious and prime among the sweetest fruits and there’s a word
in Tamil called Mukkani (three fruits) where Maa (Mango) is first and Palaa
(Jackfruit) and Vaazhai (Banana) make successive landing. In Tamil Nadu, Salem
is very popular for tasty mangoes and this district and its surroundings
produce tons of tasty mangoes yearly and Periyakulam in Theni district is also
called Mango City due to its fair amount of mangoes produced.
Mangoes do great business in this
season of summer, but these days artificially ripen of mangoes are into sale
and people has to be cautious while purchasing fruits. In cities it’s becoming
rare to see mango trees and no one seems interested to stone out mangoes from
the trees like what we used to do in childhood and everyone knows in Tamil
Nadu that a stolen mango has high deliciousness than what bought for money. Nature
is so gifted with mango trees with ever delicious pulp within a soft skin. A
fruit-bearing tree is always an attraction for birds and squirrels, the very
first species to taste the essence of the season and I’m glad to live opposite
a mango tree, grown within the compound of a neighbour to get me chance to see
and hear birds feast on hanging mangoes.
I see/hear Mynas, Green Parakeets
and Asian Koels screeching in the mornings and evenings hiding from the thick
foliage of mango tree and sometime I see green parakeet acrobat in peck eating
the fresh pulp. Parakeet is a regular sighting in the neighbourhood but mostly
they quick screech across the sky and only in summer they stay sometime hunting
on the hanging mangoes. Glad I moved to our house to see it happening closer,
after moving out of our apartment house where I would see many birds forage on
open vegetation. Last week I decided to capture the show that I missed to
capture sometime due to laziness or unreachable with camera to focus on the Parakeet.
Being a green parakeet it often hid in the greenery of the tree makes it difficult
to focus or finding its presence.
Parakeet neatly bit off the pulp, leaving away the seed. |
10 comments:
Mouth watering sitting here at Dubai and seeing the mangoes
Beautiful photos ~ love mangoes and that parakeet is sweet ~
Happy Day to you,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Nice photos, Jeevan. I've never seen a mango tree before and I imagine the birds love to visit it regularly. :)
Have a wonderful day1
Parakeets and mangoes - that is heaven!
I love mangoes especially those sweet ones. That bird gets to enjoy a delicious mango all by itself.
Oh those birds looks so beautiful!!! The Mango season has also come here in the Philippines :)
It would be so interesting to watch them work. I could see they could damage a lot of fruit as they work the whole tree.
The best and most expensive mangoes sold in my country are Indian Mangoes! They are sweet, juicy with thick flesh. Yummy!
Even the bird knows that....
Hello,
It is neat seeing the parakeets. They are beautiful birds. Great series of photos. Have a happy day!
PS, thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Have a happy day and a great new week!
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