I feel like I haven't been to Shanxi for a long time, and I think about it.
Turned out an article about the big rookie of the Shanxi base and talked about it to relieve worries.
Maybe you are also at the end of the year, I hope you can also be like the text, you can also have a leisurely heart, to see the city vegetables and birds.
At the end of the year, it can also be beautiful.
As a local cat in Shanxi, the number of times to go to the base to see birds is not small.
However, the Cat Alliance base is a treasure that will surprise you a little every once in a while. If you want to systematically introduce all the birds in the base, the difficulty is really a bit high...
But anyway, let's start with the biggest rookie around the Cat Alliance base!
Herons
Descending from Shihouling down the mountain through the base is a nearly straight road that leads to the northwest, and when it is almost to Mafang Township, it will turn around the mountain in a U-shaped bend.
Aerial photography of Mafang base
If you don't master the drift technique, along with deceleration into the corner, a huge postmodernist stainless steel three-dimensional sculpture will come into your eyes, with four big red characters "The Land of the Heron".
The reason why I dare to drink so much is because there is a famous heron nest in Mafang Township, which can gather a large number of herons during the breeding season.
But this title is indeed more reluctant.
The heron is a bird found throughout Eurasia and is one of the easiest bird species for northern birdwatchers to see when they enter wetland habitats.
Heron nest sites do not need to be close to the river.
And because of the terrain of Mountains and Rivers in Shanxi, there are often herons nesting in clusters in places with good forest coverage and tall trees.
The old man pinched his finger and calculated that there should still be many heron towns in Shanxi.
Every spring, the herons involved in breeding come along the river to the horse farm, noisily nesting, mating, incubating eggs and brooding.
During the brood season, many herons slowly wave their wings and run between the foraging ground and the nest area, and they stand slowly and gracefully, tall and eye-catching.
The herons see that humans are not easy to be frightened, often motionless, stable and powerful, and are deeply loved by the people of Mafang.
Northern Red-tailed Plover
After getting to the base, get off the car and take a few steps, you can immediately find the northern red-tailed plover.
The Northern Red-tailed Plover is also one of the most common and brightly colored bird species in the mountains of North China.
The bushes on both sides of the road, the power lines next to the forest farm...
The Northern Red-tailed Plover often stays in a more prominent position for a long time.
They sense the threat when they find the human gaze, but their eyebrows look shy when they turn and fly away.
Turning around and going into the bush is also like a sneaky little mouse, which will not cause too much movement.
The northern red-tailed plover also deftly skirts branches and leaves in the sea buckthorn bush, sometimes jumping out to the edge of the bush, standing and beginning to shake its tail for a few seconds.
The Northern Red-tailed Plover does not penetrate deep into cities during breeding, and the few individuals who remain in the north to overwinter prefer to hide in urban parks.
Smoked with Shanxi characteristic soot, the male's body color will be much darker than the breeding feathers.
Mountain Mahjong
I remember the first time I went to the base, the first bird I saw after parking was the mountain sparrow.
Compared with the tree sparrows that haunt us, the shape of the mountain sparrow is still quite different, and the call is clearer and more graceful.
Listening to the chatter of tree sparrows without rhythm, occasionally go up the mountain to listen to the mountain sparrow also feel refreshed.
On the left is the mountain sparrow and on the right is the tree sparrow
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Mountain sparrows are breeding birds in the mountains of North China, and they come around the beginning of April and gradually disappear before September.
Mountain sparrows are also much more selective about the choice of breeding nest sites, preferring tree holes, unlike relatives in the city who find a brick slit and lay eggs.
There are no tree holes to build nests elsewhere
On the west side of the road next to the base there is a small, irregularly shaped pool, the edge is wrapped in thick sea buckthorn bushes, and next to it is a small pavilion that juts out into the water like a peninsula.
In the center of the pool stands some dead yellow calamus, some of which have been fried. Many birds like to point down and take them back to the nest, of which the mountain sparrow is the main force.
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As long as you can sit motionless in the pavilion, the mountain sparrow will fly from the sea buckthorn to the calamus pole and take a few bites of hair after adapting. Before leaving, I have to stare at you, and I don't know when I have offended them.
Far Eastern
are a thriving taxon in the mountains of North China.
In any season, when you go up the mountain to see birds, the background sound in your ears is almost always the sound of.
The of northern China prefer to breed in higher mountainous areas, migrating vertically over short distances in winter to closer to human activity.
Near the end of the year, Far Eastern, swamp, yellow-bellied, and silver-throated long-tailed (in fact, the taxonomic status of the long-tailed is closer to that of warblers) have entered the city, while brown-headed and coal are relatively bone-headed, and most of them refuse to go down the mountain.
The most common species of must be the Far Eastern.
In urban green spaces with a slightly improved environment, you can see them at any time.
The Far Eastern of Shanxi were collectively called big a few years ago (formerly called habits, but I can't change my mouth until now).
The size of the big is indeed one size larger than other, and the temperament is more atmospheric than other.
The big behave less thiefishly, and sometimes stand on the top of the tree and bark for a while, without the slightest look of.
On the half-sized poplar trees around the base container, the most commonly heard is the cries of far eastern.
Coal
The coal is a bird species that I particularly like.
The coal feather crown in Shanxi is not very long, unlike its northeastern and southwestern counterparts with a strong mohican style.
Rather than Far Eastern, they prefer to roam the hillside behind the base, where there are more oil pines.
The personality is also more lively and active than its relatives, like a small coal ball standing between pine needles, jumping and jumping almost non-stop.
Chasing it, it will turn its head to look at you, and the white triangle on its face will reveal its identity.
In the personality of the coal, the comic attribute is still relatively strong.
You see it, but instead of chasing it, it will jump out and look at you for a long time, tilt its head and yell a few words, pretend to ignore you, and jump back into the pine trees without coming out again.
Mountain Noisy Stork
The Mountain Murray Grebe is probably the bird species with the most varied calls near the base.
To make a long story short, at the beginning of my bird watching career, when I seemed to understand it, the mountain bird should be the first bird I recognized according to the bird manual.
During my elementary school years, my grandfather had illegally raised several thrushes, which made me feel the temperament and behavior patterns of thrushes thoroughly.
Suddenly, one day, while climbing the mountain, I saw a bird standing in the middle of the bushes.
At that time, there was no serious telescope in junior high school, but looking at the temperament of this bird, I felt that it must be a noisy stork, and I could directly determine that it was a mountain noisy stork when I went home and turned the manual.
Compared with some noisy birds with outstanding temperament and dignified atmosphere in the southwest, the mountain noisy storks appear more gray-headed and earthy.
When at the base, the sky was just bright, and I walked along the roe deer cage, and across the river there was a large clump of sea buckthorn, and a handful of mountain noisy storks liked to grope at the bottom of the sea buckthorn bush to find food.
I didn't make a sound, it wasn't close, but one of them had already looked up at me.
The mountain bird immediately turned its head and drilled into it, and several others also jumped in, with a long tail, short wings, and a lead-gray body free of a few large rats.
Pheasant
Pheasants are the most common pheasant and should be the only bird in the pheasant family that can haunt near the base (spoon chickens and brown horse chickens are distributed in some high-altitude habitats in Shanxi).
After the opening of spring, from Mafang Township to the direction of the base, male pheasants often stand on the fields on both sides.
Male pheasants in courtship season prefer to stand out, giving the feeling of not being in a hurry.
However, it is also possible to let several of its objects go first. In fact, its heart has already ten million grass and mud horses galloping.
Sometimes hiking in the mountains to watch birds, listening to the sound of the bushes, continuing to move forward, and then there is no movement...
You're wondering if a mountain partridge has slipped away, and a few pheasants have flown out of the sky, scaring you.
Once the take-off distance was not far from my feet, and the air waves of wings snapping and flapping hit my face, and this time it was my turn to run away with ten million grass and mud horses inside me.
Li Tong:
In fact, these birds, if you are also in North China, go out and pay attention to it, you can find them around.
There are many common birds in the cat alliance base, and I also listed the bird species this time and began to write.
The space limit is also impossible to break open and knead to say, if you think it is OK, then find another opportunity to write it.
carelessly:
The big cat teacher said that the birds in this article are too common, what owls, kingfishers, woodpeckers, none.
He also said he was going to write another one. Oh, the last one has not been given to me, which means to write another one...
But the grass feels that it is okay, if you just look up at it at random, in addition to these big rookies, many people are difficult to find anything else. If you don't know that there is a kestrel in Beijing, bird watching and rookie grass have not found it before...
It is true that there are still many birds around us, but it is better that we start with these big rookies, one by one, one by one!
In addition to birds, there are many other animals in the city! If you're struggling with where to start, it's better to come to our carnival.
This weekend, we will talk about these animal friends in the city!
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