Two Kids & a Baby Bird!

By Niggy

Dolcy and Chinku, two little children, lived in a crowded city. They loved animals, insects and birds, although in the place where they lived, they didn’t often get to see many of these beautiful creatures.

Dolcy was a chubby boy, with big eyes and a round face, and looked almost like a little penguin. Chinku was skinny, almost like a twig. Both children enjoyed walking, though Dolcy did more of it, thinking that in this way he would lose weight. Being already very thin, you can understand why Chinku didn’t think that walking more than what she liked to in order to lose weight was at all a good idea for her!

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One afternoon, when the monsoons had set in and the sky was covered with a blanket of grey clouds, Dolcy and Chinku set off for a walk in the compound of a vast apartment complex just across the road from where they lived. They often went there, because they got to see animals like dogs and cats and a variety of birds and insects there.

As the children were strolling along the path that wound its way around the apartment complex, Chinku gave out a loud squeal: “Look Dolcy! A baby bird! It seems to have tumbled out of its nest!”

The baby bird had somehow landed on a driveway, where big cars zoomed up and down. As you can imagine, it was not a safe place for it to be in.

“How had the bird landed there?” wondered Dolcy and Chinku together.

Just then, Dolcy spotted the bird’s mother swoop down and land next to the baby. It began to chirp loudly, as if calling for help. It seemed to be a robin, with a pretty tuft on its head and a beautiful red chest. It was trying to make its baby to somehow return to its nest.

Chinku ran to the baby bird, carefully lifted it in her hands and placed it at the foot of the tree where its nest was. She couldn’t put it back in its nest because the nest was too high up in the tree for her to reach. But at least the baby was now safe from being hurt by a passing car and was also closer to its home.

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In a short while, the baby bird managed to hop on to a branch a short distance up the tree, being guided in this by its mother, who stood guard over it. It was still quite a distance from its nest, though.

Dolcy and Chinku were worried about how the baby, who still didn’t fully know to fly, would be able to reach its home. An elderly lady who was passing by seemed to know things about birds, and she assured them that with its own efforts and with the help of its mother, it would get back to the nest somehow. “Don’t worry, things will be fine and the baby will be safe,” she said to them. That made the two children very happy.

Chinku was so excited that she had held a baby bird in her hands for the first time in her life that she almost couldn’t stop talking about it.  She and Dolcy were very glad that they had helped the baby get to a safe place. They would like to let other children know that if they ever spot a bird or other such creature in trouble, they should do what they can to help it. If they cannot do anything themselves, they can ask someone else who might be able to do so.