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Harsukhbhai Dobariya: The birdman of Junagadh

Modest means have not stopped Harsukhbhai Dobariya from spending part of his income to feed birds

Harsukhbhai Dobariya
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Harsukhbhai Dobariya at his farmland in Junagadh. In the background parrots feed on pearl millet cobs

Vinay Umarji
Monsoon is summer for Harsukhbhai Dobariya. For the four months of the monsoon season between June and September, the septuagenarian wakes up daily at 5 am, wraps up his morning chores hurriedly before stationing himself at his farm by 6 am.
 
Within half an hour, hundreds of parrots and sparrows are perched on the 55-square-foot-wide structure made out of steel rods on his four-acre farmland, pecking at pearl millet cobs. The birds have their fill till 10 am before flying back, only to return  by 3 pm for another round till 6 in the evening. At the end of