I am quite familiar with their behavior, they can be quite stubborn. I can quickly notice their present around me at any time simply by hearing their voice. They are that typical. They have such a specific voice, different than other birds.
You see, not all kind of birds eat paddy-grains, only specific ones. In my village, we call this kind of bird as dingis. Some of them have white head, some have black head. We name them, the black head or the white head. The ones with black head are the worst since they are typically like-deaf. You get to chase them away from the rice field by walking next to where they are. Unlike the white head ones, they usually fly away even by only hearing your voice chasing them away. We do cry out loudly chasing birds away, uuuueeeeiiii...uuueeeeiiii...! Repeating it all they long, from morning to evening.
In the middle of the day, the sun was clear. It was hot. Birds preferred to stay away from the rice field, perching on some trees, cooling themselves. At this time, my sister and I could eat our lunch. We did so in the middle of the field, just in case if some of those birds were recklessly entering the field and eating the grain. We got to be watchful.
At around 4:00 pm, the sun was cooler. At this hour, birds usually tried the most they could to get some grains. We had to be more vigilant. I asked my sister to go walked checking the far end of the field. It looked to me that some of those black heads were perching there.
"I don't feel like going there," said my sister. "How about you checked it yourself?"
Well, I quickly just run to that far end. The landscape to that far end was sloppy. Just as I started to get at that sloppy area, I had to suddenly stop. Oh goodness! Oh dear! No way...!
A large snake was on the ground right in front of me. Black. It was about 3 meters long! What a snake! Oh no! Why me? Why we both had to be at that same place at the same time?
For seconds, I stopped breathing. Intuitively, in silence, I turned away, tip toeing so not to make the snake feeling uneasy. I couldn't see the face but its tongue was sticking out. Oh no...! That was awfully scary to me.
Then, after tip toeing for a few meters, I run away from the snake as fast as I could toward my sister. She was startled seeing me coming that way.
"What's happening?" she asked.
"Oh nooo", I said, gasping. "There was a large snake at that end!" I managed to calm myself down for a few minutes.
