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Birdsong Season: The Year of the Birds in Britain [English] Brett Westwood Stephen Moss by Zhu Lei, Wang Qi, Wang Hui, Translated by Yilin Publishing House
June. If you don't explore a heather forest at dusk, June must be incomplete. Because here, you can find the Nighthawk making a strange clicking sound like an alien landing craft.
July. In the middle of summer nights, many mothers of cliff crows encourage their only son to jump off the cliffs where they live and come to the surface of the sea, where their fathers are waiting to escort their young birds to the open sea for the rest of the year.
August. In the wilderness and commons, the newly fledgling young black-throated stone is still being fed by his parents, and the surrounding landscape is purple-red due to the large number of flowers in heather, and everything is waiting for autumn to come.
September. The wind direction began to change, and various rumors about rare or unexpected migratory birds followed. Birdwatchers wander around the sprawling nets or wander around the nearby nice-looking bushes, hoping to come across an unlucky passerby.
October. There is always a day or night in October that marks the transition between summer and autumn. At that moment, you can hear a sharp whistling sound overhead, and when you look up, you can see a flock of flying plovers.
November. Fireworks illuminate the night sky, cold winds sweep away the last of the leaves from the trees, and for many birds, November is the season of dormancy.
December. As the year draws to a close, the best view is a light-colored, moth-like figure flying over the grass in the distance. Seeing a barn owl hunting in the hunting ground of its ancestors can make people forget all the unhappiness caused by the cold and damp.
Birdsong Season: The Chronicle of birds in the Uk is sorted by month, and introduces 247 representative species of birds in a year in a beautiful and flexible manner, of which 200 species are also distributed in China.
The authors Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss are well-known British naturalist authors, BBC natural history program producers and veteran bird watchers, who use beautiful and popular scientific language to describe the appearance and life history of birds, and record the changes in the ecological environment with poetic words, each chapter is condensed and beautiful prose.
Interspersed with folklore, poetry, and art, the book presents the important role that birds play in human culture. It also introduces classic cases of bird conservation in the UK, providing profound insights into our understanding of the relationship between man and nature. The book contains 274 beautiful illustrations, and you can scan the code to enjoy the photos and songs of birds.
Birdsong Season encourages us to listen to the songs of the four seasons in our busy lives and rebuild our connection with nature.
It is commendable that the book has a total of 488 pages, a thick one, but because the whole book is printed on imported Nordic Monken paper, the book is not heavy at all, and it is easy to carry and flip through. Go to nature with books and birds, and let's get started.
Book excerpts
June is a fertile season, and as the days get longer and the sunshine increases, wildlife comes alive. Suddenly it was as if everything began to bloom. By this time, most of the migratory birds had arrived in the UK, and some hatched the first nest of chicks of the year. Some chicks have even grown feathers. By the end of June, the swallows are making their first test flight around stables and farms, and their parents are already planning to start the next family, but the spouse is not necessarily the same.
In our garden, the adult oyster, wrapped in brown and brown markings, suddenly began practicing singing, and flocks of newborn green finches and large emerged from their nests for the first time. These juvenile young birds need to be fed a lot of food whether they leave the nest or not, so June is the busiest month for their parents. The parent bird must devote all his time and energy to feeding his own child who is waiting to be fed.
With such a heavy feeding task, you might think that the birds will no longer sing, but in fact many birds will continue to sing throughout June. Birds that lay only one nest of eggs during the breeding season do not sing anymore because they no longer need to identify and guard their territory through sound; others, such as the willow warbler, the Xinjiang songbird, and the white-throated forest warbler, will eventually fall silent by the end of June. But there are also many birds, such as the black-capped forest warbler, the grey-throated forest warbler, the woolly owls and the egrets, that will continue to sing when the female lays her second nest of eggs. Most cuckoos also quiet down at the end of June, and some males have even begun their journey southward, staying in the British Isles for only about two months.
In the early morning of June, although the birds chorus is not as loud as in May, there is still a special repertoire worth listening to. In one of the few marshy poplar forests, golden orioles whistle with tropical whistling among swaying leaves. This month, this migratory yellow spirit is likely to appear in any deciduous forest. If you don't explore a heather forest at dusk, June must be incomplete. Because here, you can find the Nighthawk making a strange clicking sound like an alien landing craft. Even on the open farm, a June repertoire is staged, and the song of quail "wet-my-lips" flutters above the towering corn stalks, continuously, in the clouds. However, the stars of the June choir are also birds hidden in the willow leaf vegetables and nettle bushes by the pond ditch. They are the wetland reed warbler – a rare bird that is only found in local areas. In a few parts of southeast England, wetland reed warblers can be heard mimicking the sounds of a variety of birds, from kestrels to oysters, from swallows to red-fronted goldfinches, all interwoven into a noisy song.
June is also the season to visit the habitat of seabirds, and the brooding activities of seabirds are in full swing. On sea cliffs and islands, Arctic puffins are filled with small fish in their large beaks, which they use to feed their offspring hidden in their nests. There are some protruding rock shelves on the cliff walls, where the cliff crows feed their toddlers one after another. European cormorants regurgitate the various seafood in their pockets and feed them directly to their children, who have not yet learned to walk. This feeding route between the sea and the land gives birdwatchers a feast for sight and sound, even in terms of smell. Under the exposure of the June sun, the bird droppings are constantly fermenting, producing a pungent smell that is simply unimaginable to those who have not experienced it.
Elderberry and dog roses blooming by fences, dragonflies and bean maidens circling over ponds and streams foraging, all the sights and sounds of nature tell people that summer is coming. But just after midsummer, the first white-waisted sandpipers and sandpipers coming south from as far away as Scandinavia. It's no surprise to see them, as these birds, which have embarked on their migration journey early, may not have found their mates during the breeding season. Instead of continuing to waste time in their northern breeding grounds, they travel early to wintering grounds. Crested wheat chickens flapping their wings lazily over gravel pits, having just nursed their offspring for the year not far away, now ready to leave their breeding grounds. For these migrating birds, autumn has already begun.
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