Sunday, July 24, 2011

“The Audacious Kiskadee”

Stuart is passionate about his fishes so he takes good care of them. The aquarium is blocked off, but the mistake he made was leaving a space between the fence and the roof. He knew that birds could fly in through the space, so he intended to cover it with mesh-wire. Weeks went by and no birds came in the area where the fishes were, so he forgot about what he intended to do. One day, when he went to feed the fishes, a Kiskadee flew in, swooped down over the aquarium, caught a fish, hovered for a moment audaciously looking at him, with its victim clenched between its feet, did its famous birdcall –“kis…kia…dee”, then flew away with the fish…

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