Xiaozhou Village, located in Haizhu District, Guangzhou, did not pay much attention before, and did not even notice that Guangzhou has such an ancient village similar to the characteristics of Fengjian Water Town. During October, I went to Xiaozhou Village with my friends to shoot birds, and only then did I first know Xiaozhou Village, and found that there was still a trace of the scene of the small bridge and flowing water in Lingnan Water Town, unfortunately, a huge Nansha port expressway stretched across the east side of Xiaozhou Village, which made people have an indescribable sense of depression. The bottom of the expressway has become the parking lot of Xiaozhou Village, and on the east side of the highway is Yingzhou Ecological Park and Fruit Forest, covering an area of more than 20,000 mu. Thanks to the large-scale ecological park and fruit forests, Xiaozhou Village has become a bird watching spot in Guangzhou.
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Friends invited to Nansha Wanmu Orchard near the Xiaozhou village to shoot Zhubei pecking birds, this fixed point is Dongshan Lake bird friends to give, his bird news is more, but also proposed to let us go to pick him up together. Mr. Dongshanhu once had a previous contact and went to Hengkeng Village to photograph sunbirds together.
In the morning, pick up Mr. Dongshan Lake at Yangji Subway Station and navigate to the bird shooting point according to the location he gives. The vehicle from huangpu avenue on south China fast, straight to Nansha and university town direction, to the fixed point position, did not find the bird shooter standard "big shot", it seems that the location is not right, had to get off the car to find someone to ask for directions. Fortunately, the villagers here are very simple, a local villager in his forties, looked at the mobile phone photo presented by Mr. Dongshan Lake, very refreshingly riding an electric motorcycle, leading us towards Xiaozhou Village. The vehicle traveled on the trail at the bottom of the Nansha Port Expressway, and in about ten minutes or so, we arrived at the bird shooting point. Xiaozhou Village is located next to a small bridge at the entrance to the village on the Nansha Port Expressway. After the villager took us to his position, before we could get out of the car to thank him, he had already turned around and rode away. It seems that there are also those who are eager to help others, and good traditions are still preserved here.
After stopping in the parking lot under the highway viaduct, what appeared in front of it was a small square with gray and white granite rock faces, and a small stone arch bridge on one side of the small square, and several trees full of small fruits on each side of the arch bridge. I am not an expert on plants, and I have not recognized these trees with the relevant mobile phone software, and I do have a feeling of interlacing like a mountain. The accuracy of the current mobile phone software for identifying birds is still quite high, but the recognition rate of identifying flowers, plants and trees and other items is not high. I am very much looking forward to the development of AI artificial intelligence, mobile PHONE APP can quickly and accurately identify various items like experts and scholars in various professions.
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As soon as we had set up the camera equipment, a bird with a scarlet head to the back, purple-black back feathers, and gray-white belly feathers, a bird slightly larger than its thumb appeared on a branch on the side of the house near the arch bridge, immediately causing a crackling shutter sound. I saw this little bird for the first time, today it is the male bird, the female bird has not appeared, according to friends, the female bird is not as beautiful as the male, the head and back position is not red, but the tail is a little red. I don't know if it's the same or several male birds that take turns.
The stone bridge for taking pictures is relatively narrow, and there are about 7 to 8 people shooting on the bridge in the morning, and we swing on the bridge, almost occupying two-thirds of the road, to a certain extent, the villagers' entry and exit have been unchanged. However, from the perspective of passers-by, the villagers here fully embody the concept of Guangdong people doing business and pursuing popularity, and all the people who come are guests, as long as someone comes to patronize. The two trees next to the bridge were covered with a green fruit, which attracted the vermilion-backed pecking birds, and other birds also appeared in rows. Like the long-tailed leaf warbler, it is also a regular visitor to both trees, staring at the fruit
Also fascinated by the fruit are the sunbird and the red-breasted flower-pecking bird, which I already know well, or its brownish-green feathers, which facilitate the intake of nectar's long, slightly curved beak. Later, after sorting out the photos, a red-breasted flower-pecking bird was also found, which was also attracted to the fruit and appeared on the branches. The red-breasted pecking bird feathers and appearance are very similar to the sunbird, and the slight difference is that one mouth is straight and the other is curved.
When taking pictures, the flow of people walking on the bridge is continuous, the girls who push the shared bicycles hard to get on the bridge away from the village and enter the city, the middle-aged women who return to the village with large bags and small bags of Chinese medicine bags, the young boys who carry the drawing board to the village to collect wind, the courier brother who crosses the bridge deck in the wind and wind, leisurely through the three-three-two tourists who stop on the bridge deck to watch us take pictures, and we pile up to take pictures. Occasionally I hear passers-by talking, what are they filming? Are you shooting birds? What's there to shoot about birds?
Most of the "bird friends" who took pictures should have heard their arguments, and after the friends heard them, I watched him silently stare at the person who commented, and his heart must be refuting. I also want to try to answer, in fact, bird shooting is also a personal hobby, as I sometimes ask, why do so many people like to run marathons? The same is true of bird shooting and the love of running marathons, but it is just a way for human beings to pursue the pleasures of spiritual life and exercise. Similar to the previous philatelic collection, philately is to collect more rare stamps. Many people also shoot birds in order to shoot more bird species, shoot birds beautifully, shoot well, and can shoot rare bird species.
A little further from the bridge, there are many weeping melaleuca trees, and the trees just hang some round-haired brush-like red flowers, and dark green embroidered birds often appear near the flower clusters, sucking nectar. In the past, when not bird watching, did not pay attention to the classification of birds, after the recent period of bird watching, it was found that dark green embroidered eye birds are actually as common as sparrows, and the distribution may even be more extensive than sparrows, as long as there are traces of dark green embroidered eye birds in the woods, almost every time bird watching This bird will be like a shadow, from Yunnan to Guangdong to Hunan and Hainan, you can see their figures.
Around 11:00 p.m., the vermilion-backed pecking birds may also be full, and the frequency of activities is getting less and less frequent, and the first birds to arrive begin to pack up their equipment and return, ready to change places to continue to shoot the female vermilion-backed pecking birds. We also began to turn back to the city, ending today's bird-shooting trip.