Of late he has started turning into Salim Ali and M.Krishnan. An ornithologist, he can even mark the nest with the hatchlings. One day the same black birds will sing and he will the sweet notes to turn it into Ode to a Nightingale, To a Skylar, To the Skylark.. Had Nissim Ezekiel been, he would have Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher. But in D.H.Lawrence's novella The Fox, for the women characters, March and Banford, Henry appears to be the intruder.
