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Sashi Bhushan Roy of Saptabari Village in West Bengals Jalpaiguri District has raised a huge garden that provides a shelter to over 15,000 birds on a piece of land that he primarily wanted to use for agriculture.
Saptibari (West Bengal), July 22 : Sashi Bhushan Roy of Saptabari Village in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri District has raised a huge garden that provides a shelter to over 15,000 birds on a piece of land that he primarily wanted to use for agriculture.
On watching a number of birds arriving almost everyday at his land measuring 13,068 square feet, he quit the idea of using the land for any other purpose than a home for his winged friends.
Today, over 15,000 birds bear testimony to 65-year-old Sashi Bhushan's immeasurable love for the feathered friends in Jalpaguri. He claims to have developed a special relation with these friends.
Bhusan said: "We have gradually become friends. The numbers of the birds is also increasing. They listen to my directions. If I am inside, they don't make noise but if any outsider enters the garden, they get restless and start hovering."
Bhusan, nick-named 'Pakhiburo' (an old lover of birds) loves to interact with the birds in his mother tongue Bengali and claims that they very-well understand it.
He has at least 10 species living with him that include Egret, Night Heron, Dove, Cormorant, Robin and Barbet, Drongo, even Bat and others.
Bhusan's son Paritosh Roy helps him everyday and the duo makes the birds feel at home. Whenever a bird falls ill, the father-son duo gives it loving care.
His neighbours too seem to have been inspired from his love for the birds and appreciate his deep sense of care for them.
Sashi Bhusan and his son believe that they have no problem if the government intends to convert the other part of their land into a bird sanctuary. But they are unwilling to give away their garden and want the government to make an alternative arrangement for them.
Despite living a poor man's life, Bhusan doesn't wish to cut or sell trees for money, as he doesn't want to part from this family of friends.
ANI
