The 57-year-old farmer in the picture, a farmer in Qiliwan Village, Pinglu County, Shanxi Province, comes on time every morning at 6:30 a.m. on the hillside near his home to feed a rare local bird, which he says is feeding a wild bird called a stone chicken, where he has been feeding for 3 years.
Brother Yang said that 3 years ago, by chance, he met several photographers who went up the mountain to shoot birds, and asked him to be a guide to find a wild bird called stone chicken, which was called "lai chicken" by local farmers, and he could not find it for five or six days at that time.
After photographing the stone chicken, the photographers said to Lao Yang, you must protect the stone chicken, which is a rare wild bird in the country and the national bird of Pakistan. Since then, Brother Yang has begun to feed these 3 stone chickens every day, and in the past 3 years, the stone chickens have also developed from the original 3 to more than 40 now, which also attracts many photography enthusiasts to take pictures every year.
In order not to disturb the normal life of Shiji and to meet the needs of many photography enthusiasts to take pictures, Yang Brother used a black shade net to build a photographic camouflage shelter on the hillside near his home. This can not only protect the stone chicken from being frightened, but also allow photography enthusiasts to photograph the stone chicken and promote environmental protection.
Brother Yang said that the stone chicken is timid, high vigilance, as soon as he sees people, he immediately flies without a trace, at the beginning he fed for more than 3 months the stone chicken still can not get close, and then he hid behind the big stone after feeding quietly observe and recorded the sound of the stone chicken with the mobile phone, over time the stone chicken is also familiar with him, every time he plays the sound of the stone chicken in the mobile phone, they will appear at the feeding point.
This is the stone chicken protected by Lao Yang. He said that in the past, farmers in the mountains had no awareness of environmental protection and often hunted them, so they once caused the disappearance of stone chickens, and through their three years of protection and publicity work, the mountain people have realized the importance of the relationship between the environment and human beings.
This stone chicken stood on the stone of the feeding point built by Brother Yang and ate leisurely, and the "quack" in his mouth kept chirping, so the locals called it "gaga chicken" again.
A small bird came running to compete with the stone chicken for food. The wild stone chicken is particularly timid and afraid of people, and it is not easy to photograph it.
Due to The three years of Feeding and Protecting You by Brother Yang, photography enthusiasts can only photograph these mountain spirits at close range, the number of bird photographers across the country has also increased in the past two years, and the village of Qiliwan in Pinglu County is also famous for the appearance of stone chickens, which is now known by locals as "Stone Chicken Village" by locals
Brother Yang's dream is to attract photography and outdoor enthusiasts and tourists from all over the country to Qili Bay through photographers to photograph Shiji, develop tourism here, make "Stone Chicken" become "Golden Rooster", sell the agricultural and sideline products in the countryside here, and let everyone rely on "Stone Chicken" to get rich. [If you want to see more stories of the people, please click on the top right corner to follow]