Zhang Shunmei
Today, early in the morning, my father and I went to visit the "guests" from Siberia - the East Lake migratory birds.
As soon as I approached the "Swan Lake" scenic spot in East Lake, I was attracted by the sound of quacking, chirping and cooing. The water quality and environment here are good, the aquatic plants are dense, the natural vegetation is abundant, and water chestnuts, fish and shrimp snails and submerged vegetation in the lake are the favorite foods of the little swans. Every year, about tens of thousands of blue-headed loons, white cranes, white storks, cygnets, white spoonbills, and grey cranes wait for birds to winter here, of which there are more than 600 blue-headed ducks at their highest peak (only about 1,000 in the world). With the improvement of the environment and the enhancement of the awareness of ecological protection of villagers near the lake, some blue-headed loon ducks have long inhabited here and have become veritable resident birds.
The bird-watching area includes a popular science square, a bird-watching platform, and a walking trail. Tourists suppress their excitement and peruse the information about migratory birds, and they can't bear to disturb migratory birds at all. Through the advanced telescope on the bird-watching tower, I saw more than 1,000 little swans, wild geese, blue-headed ducks or combing their feathers on the surface of the lake, quietly resting, or eating leisurely, or flying freely in mid-air, and the verdant Lushan mountains not far away reflected the bottom of the lake, the poetic picture is amazing, attracting bird lovers and photography enthusiasts from all over the world to gather in East Lake every year.
According to the tracking research of provincial wildlife protection experts, the East Lake cygnet is a subspecies of Bewickii, with a global population of about 300,000 individuals, breeding in eastern Russia and wintering through Mongolia and northern China to the Korean Peninsula, Japan and the Yangtze River basin of the mainland, Guangdong Province and Taiwan. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are important wintering grounds for cygnets, Poyang Lake is the wintering ground with the largest number of migratory populations in East Asia, and East Lake is one of the important wetlands of Poyang Lake, which can be called a paradise for migratory birds to overwinter.
Flocks of migratory birds fly from the lake from time to time, and there is a crackling sound in the distance; When they lined up in a herringbone shape and floated over my head, it was like a divine thing, bringing me into the realm of a fairytale. Now is a good time for birdwatching, and the tourists in the birdwatching area have just walked and another batch has come. In the afternoon, amid the happy chirping of migratory birds, I reluctantly left East Lake. I silently said to them, "Good neighbor, I will come to see you!" ”