My Wildlife Encounters

  The flashing of the white leaves of Mussaenda  along with the scintillating rays from the nearby water droplets on the grass blades, the unbearable heat, and dryness from the sun made me sit down beneath the shady canopy of a humongous tree. The hysterical laugh of the Treepies and the noisy chattering of the Mynas from the nearby canopies told me that no one likes the scorching rays of the afternoon sun. The wilted tender leaves and the blooms stood as a witness for how hot the day was. Lying down on a relatively cool grassy carpet and looking at the glistening sun rays changing their incidence between the canopy leaves was truly blissful. Waking up to the fissle of dry leaves caused by the sprints of a mongoose, I dusted my bag and walked further and reached a swampy mangrove patch with treetops so closely knit to each other making the entire place look like a dark dungeon, the inundated ground made it all damp and marshy. Long sticks of breathing roots standstill from the ground e