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When the female crow has gone out looking for more nesting materials and a break, a group of Jungle Babblers come and settle in to the nest, and inspect its construction! Nosey little things sit on the eggs, chitter-chatter about the construction quality and build and decide to move on in time for the crow to return. Does this accusation follow? "Who slept in my bed?" Mama bear asks... "The three bears" analogy! The law of nature is strange and fascinating. Unexpected and full of surprises like this rare behaviour of Jungle Babblers caught on camera. Now we know Mynas and Crows are not the only thieves in the bird world! It all starts with this once abandoned Common Crow nest sitting in an open fork of a tree at our Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi. Our crew took the trouble of making clay
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