11.KUNJIKILI

I was going through a painful phase when I first saw kunjikili on the branch of a shrub outside my house. I was strolling in front of my house one night, when I saw something in between the branches that appeared like a ball of cotton. When we shined light on it, two little eyes sparkled in the dark. It was a wonderful night to have discovered something so small and so beautiful, that you didn’t know even existed until then. That night he was alone and we didn’t see him for a few months, maybe an year. But he came again, this time with his partner and settled on another tree. They will come in the evening, sit next to each other, sometimes with their head buried in their feather and take rest. In the morning, just after sunrise they will leave, to return back at the exact same spot in the evening. The partner gets scared easily and would fly away if we tried to approach them before sunset. But once it is dark, they are perfectly still until it is morning. Now we see them almost every year on one of the trees nearby our home, every winter. Once it starts to rain, they go somewhere else. But we have never seen them making nests or laying eggs. But whatever they are, they are a perfectly happy couple, or so it seems