Where waste accumulates, and river Adyar ‘weeps’

Trust a birder to make a short trail longer by taking measured steps, extending their pauses and lingering longer at every square inch of the landscape, their eyes gulping in ancillary details while scanning for feathers. 

Given what they notice in every outing, the local municipal administration should reserve a seat or two for birders at spaces where table-thumping official-citizen interactions over civic affairs, particularly waste management, happen.