During the "May Day" holiday, the tourist attractions in and around the city are already busy and crowded. Instead of making it bustling, we drove to a small forest next to Baiyun Community Village to see the egrets, night herons, pond herons and cowback herons that inhabited here. The dense camphor forest is like a landscape timberland, about 30 to 40 acres, and four kinds of heron birds meet here to breed, which is very harmonious. The heron birds that have been identified as their mates shuttle between the woods and the neighboring vineyards and peach orchards, clutching dead branches and busy building nests. Heron birds, who have been promoted to parents, are busy flying to the nearby weir pond to find food for their children. The chicks danced on the branches of the trees without anyone around, and it was really a newborn calf that was not afraid of tigers. The bull-backed heron with yellow feathers on its head, neck and back is particularly skinny.
I felt like I was in a hideaway...
Cowback heron small fresh
An adult cow-backed heron busy building a nest
——May 1, 2022 in Xiangyang Yinji