The swallows that appear in Wushi Spring are mainly house swallows, hairy-footed swallows, gray sand swallows are also available, the shape of the house swallow throat is brownish red, the abdomen and tail coverts are white or light brown, the rest of the feathers are black, and the two wings are clipped to the abdomen when flying, and it likes to build nests under the eaves or under the bridge.
My father's work unit used to work in the former district tax bureau of Minzhu West Road in Wushi City, a three-story Soviet-style building, and the family home was not far from the building. Every year in the middle of April, the elm branches on the side of the street begin to produce hairy green leaves, the Su-style pointed tin roof, the snow has long melted, and under the eaves of the roof, there are nesting swallows that do not know when, and by morning and dusk, the busy house swallows are constantly shuttling, chirping, sometimes whistling over your head and shoulders. Occasionally, children can also catch one or two family swallows, I don't know if it is a family swallow that is angry, and the next day they die of gas. Grow up to know that the family swallow to raise the family is hard, the female swallow is responsible for incubation, the male swallow is responsible for foraging, flying 200 times all day, waiting for the chicks to break out of the shell, the parenting task is more arduous, the male and female swallows alternately go out to forage, fly no less than 500 times all day, support the young swallows to grow up, poor parents in the world. Remembering the ridiculous things that Jia Yan did to Jia Yan when he was a child, he ruined his future happiness, and he thought he was ashamed. After the middle of September, Jia Yan flew away with the team of geese that moved south, and then moved back.
In the past, the nursery rhyme was sung as "Little swallow, wear a flower dress, come here every spring." I asked the swallows why they came, and the swallows said that spring here is the most beautiful. "
Today's buildings are the same, all flat roofs, straw weaving nest swallows are difficult to see, last spring passed a rotten tail real estate, surrounded by construction waste, vacant building windows suddenly out of ten family swallows, roaring in groups to the distance. Whether the city cannot accommodate the swallow, or the family swallow can not stand the noise of the city, it is not known, can only say that the swallow belongs to nature. #辛丑牛年正月二十七夜 #