A steady stream of visitors from other places visit the village to enjoy gazing at the migratory birds for hours together, they say and want the government to unleash in full the eco-tourism potential of the birds’ natural habitat and provide facilities for visitors to the village. Summer vacation comes in handy for a group of youth constantly maintain a vigil to ward off threats to their special guests from strangers entering the village. The village is known not just for the superior breed of Ongole cattle, which the farmers rear with passion considering as equal to their sons. The decrease in inflow into the reservoirs across the Krishna in the State after the increase in the height of the Almatti reservoir had a telling effect on the arrival of migratory birds in between 600 and 700, adds a septuagenarian villager T.Hanumantha Rao. ‘Mother’s place’Our village is in fact akin to mother’s place for the birds, which comes for nesting and return only when the young ones in position to fly long distances, adds a woman, Ramanamma sitting on the tank bund..