The Flamingos Of Sewree

A sharp turn down a grimy road opposite the eastern side of Sewree railway station in Mumbai, took us past haphazardly parked petroleum tankers, weighing stations and truck depots and deposited us on the empty quay on Sewree jetty. Striking up a conversation with the portly policeman on duty, we inquired if the visitors were still around at this time of the year? He nodded his head, smiled and said yes, adding that we had come at the perfect time to meet them. We followed his gaze over the adjoining mudflats to see a myriad pink specks dotting the black earth..these were the esteemed visitors...the flamingos of Sewree. In a phenomenon which defies some amount of logical explanation, every year thousands of flamingos come to this area surrounded on all sides by factories and refineries, calling it home for six months before they fly back to the Rann of Kutch to avoid the monsoon rains. We spent the next two hours watching the tide roll in, bringing the birds closer towards us and into the surrounding mangroves, marveling at this rare spectacle of nature in the midst of a giant metropolis and taking photographs of the flamingos of Sewree...

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[manjit singh narang]

...........i was so near to them.......but never saw them ealier......i need to have ur instincts n natural love...to be able to obseve them...thx.....being closer to nature is being closer to god..................rab mehar kare