Scaly-breasted munias busy carrying off soft, downy strands of sugarcane blooms to build their nest. Nipping and flying, working all day with hardly a break.

The care and the devotion, the persistent single mindedness with which these parents work, will their chicks ever know, one wonders. Maybe not, but when they grow up, they will be doing just as much, setting up a comfy home for their own!







