A newly built house was chosen by the sparrow couple to build their nest, and to lay eggs, the house was like an oasis as there were very few houses that had gardens and different kinds of plants in the garden, various types of fruits and flowers and insects upon which the sparrow feeds.
The sparrows started building their nest in the house. First they selected a perfect place for their nest, they tried the tube light(above the tube light), the windows, and ventilators. And finally they chose the ventilator for their nest and as a new house for their kids.
The house owners tried to scare them off so that they don't build nest inside the house, they wanted them to build the nest out of the house. It was not that they were not nature lovers or they were not sparrow lovers but because they were scared of the ceiling fan that was present in the room. They were in fact trying to protect the sparrows by not allowing them to build the nest inside the house. As it was summer the ceiling fan could not be kept switched off every time. But the sparrows were daring and they did not left trying, they used to bring dried grass and dried thin sticks for their nest, some times they also got iron wires and threads with them. Finally the house owners decided to keep the doors shut, so that sparrows do not enter into the house and would be forced to build the nest outside the house. This worked for some days and the sparrows after that decided to build the nest on the same ventilator but from outside of the house.
One day the house owners were not in the house, and
they forgot to close the doors.( The door was not the main door but the other door). The sparrows noticed this and with in that day they build their nest in the house on the same ventilator where they were trying before.
When the house owner returned in the evening, they got shocked to see the nest in the house, they tried to see if it had eggs also, so they got a ladder and tried to see in the nest, and for their surprise there were two eggs in the nest. Now they decided to let the nest in the house itself. They also decided to not to turn on the ceiling fans till the eggs hatch and kids leave the house. The days were going very smooth and happily for both the families ( The sparrow family and the human family). When the house owner had meal they also serve some to the sparrows.
And the day came when the house owners heard the voice of a little sparrow, yes , it was the third sparrow that had just came out of the eggs, must be cheering on its victory over the other eggs because it hatched earlier. After some days the other egg also hatched, and the house was echoed with their voices, morning, evening , noon or night anytime they just started shouting, and their parent sparrows run for them to feed them, to fulfill all their demands.
But, destiny had something else in its mind. Just after 3-4 days of the hatching of the second egg the house owner had some guests in their house, they turned on the fan. The sparrows not aware of this thing, as they used the fan only to love with each other and to excrete. The kid sparrows were shouting and the parent sparrows were out of the house to get some food for the kid sparrows, the male sparrow (Father of the kid sparrows) came in suddenly and got hit by the moving ceiling fan, the blade of the fan hit sparrow's neck and sparrow was thrown on the walls of the room, the male sparrow died.
The house owner got shocked , as if it was their own who was hurt, the guests could not realise what had happened, because for them it was just a bird, but for the house owners it was like a friend, a kid , a family member.
Unaware of all this, the kid sparrows kept shouting for food, the mother sparrow came and fed the kids, she searched and shouted everywhere in the house for the male sparrow, but she could not find him, at last she saw the body of the male sparrow (her lover) lying on the floor, covered with blood, broken neck that had food for their kids. She came near the body of the male sparrow saw him from different angles, touched his beak with her beak and shouted in a different voice. Now she understood that her lover has left her alone to take care of their loved ones , she waited there for few seconds and then flew back to the ventilator.
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