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The last time we saw the birds sitting on the tree it was 8 years ago. Now there were again two of them. Of course they were not the same old birds but only looked the same to us. We decided to call it Tiptipi and Kutki. Tiptipi was slightly the bigger one and quite lazy. It always seemed to be dozing and I feared it would fall off sometime from the branch they were resting on. Indeed it fell off at a short distance! Poor Kutki which was resting next to it also did! This was during the holiday season when all the children were playing on the streets. One of the little boys came running with curiosity and excitement written all over his face. He spread his two legs and bent down to pick one of them. Frightened, Kutki fluttered its wings and almost poked the little boy’s tender cheeks with its beak. The boy taken by surprise fell on his back trying hard to get up and run. The other kids started screaming with some kind of surprise & excitement around them.     I watched th...