Dark clouds gathered, lightning thundered, and downpours washed the land. Water droplets hit the leaves, splashing debris scattered in the air, and the remaining water slipped down the lines, dripping onto the blades of grass and into the buds. The rushing current on the ground picked up a flat boat driven by the ant and carried it around, but soon the swaying boat ran aground in place, because the water was sucked up in an instant. Here, it is a tropical primeval rainforest.
In the still dry bushes, on a large dense tree hung a small wooden wine glass covered with lichen moss and sporadic spider webs. A bee-like bird stands on its nest, looking out at the swamp in the distance, blinking its eyes, and it's time to find some nutrients to fill its empty belly.
They are the smallest bird in the world, the daimyo hummingbird. The family won this name by the hummingbird in Cuba, which is 5.6 cm long and weighs about 2 grams, like a small bee between flowers, and the eggs are as small as fine rice. The largest member of the family, the giant hummingbird in South America, is 21.5 cm long and weighs 20 grams, which is completely inconsistent with the name of "the best of the birds", and is simply a fat sparrow with a smaller size.
The swamp with its ripples is the goddess of the forest, and the flowers and plants on the shore are garlands of flowers and plants on her head.
Birds take off vertically, flapping their wings at a rhythm of dozens of times per minute, burrowing into the flowers. The petals of the shrimp flower are like slices of golden potato chips, wrapped around the core, butted and stacked, round like a butter-coated walnut, as tall as baked oily corn. And he only sucked the boiling hot honey juice contained in it. Like a helicopter, hovering in mid-air, its pointed beak extended, drilling into the treasure it was mired in.
Look at his small size, but his appetite is not small, and after sucking one, it is not enough to plug the gap between his teeth.
"Boom—" Flapping their wings and making a pop sound, it meant that they had already opened their appetites and fired at full speed. London has Big Ben bells, Shaolin Temple has golden bells, and in this rain forest, there are many red hanging bells - upside down golden bells, a wonderful plant, nature is really a very imaginative gardening designer, so that the flowers bloom all over the body red, the whole flower falls heavily to the ground, as if it has been squashed by someone, swollen head open, far away, it looks like a gourd that has exploded the lower body. A flying insect stopped on top of it, and the bird saw it from a distance, and did not rush up from here, but suppressed the fluttering sound, like a car that lowered the engine sound, and drifted towards the flower next to the flower.
The gadget seemed to be taking a nap on the flower crown. Approaching it, I realized that this bug was grunting and sucking on the nectar, and looking at its beautiful appearance, I knew how delicious the nectar was!
Suddenly, the well-eaten bug stopped moving, presumably because the keen nerve had sensed something. Shake open the thin wings and take off with the wind.
"Sigh—" The slowly taking off bug heard the loud noise behind it, still chewing its serrations, turning its head cleverly, and flying opposite the bird that was swooping at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, and passed by, maintaining a distance of 10 bird heads between the two. It turned its face sideways to glance at the birds that were rushing at the flowers, smiled triumphantly, and then turned back and continued to fly.
"Hiss—" The rich experience and profound wisdom had already made him anticipate the insect's ghostly idea, and as soon as his sharp eyes caught the figure of him fleeing from the wilderness, he chirped and chirped, drawing a slender U-shape in mid-air, and the gorgeous general counted it, and flew backwards without turning his head back, resolutely reversing the car, and retreating straight to the side of the insect.
Bugs "Ah! With a scream, it was pierced into a meat skewer by the sharp beak of the bird, pierced through the stomach, and the bird swallowed the saliva and fell into the belly of the bird. This is the case of the sword-beaked hummingbird, replaced by a short-beaked stinging hummingbird and a sharp-billed hummingbird, it will be cut open by a knife and cut off at the waist. The sickle-beaked hummingbird, whose beak is bent downwards, folds it in half and puts its hot face on its own cold ass before dying. The cocked hummingbird and the anti-beaked hummingbird with its beak bent upwards will let it die many times, peck it, not dead? Peck again until it is tortured alive to the point of collapse.
Just finished hunting, have to stop digestion and digestion of the branches, the heart is still fluttering and jumping straight, usually a few hundred times a minute is normal, now it has been thousands of times. Calm your breathing as soon as possible, so as to carefully taste the delicacies of the square entrance - the nectar that the insects have just eaten into the stomach gradually spreads in the mouth, and the feeling of a large spoonful of honey melting in the mouth is indeed touching and refreshing!
After eating and drinking, the feathers of the body become more and more colorful, like a sweater woven of seven rainbows, and like a newly carved gemstone, it shines brightly. The thighs of the pair of thin women's eyelashes are decorated with white hairs, the big eyes blink a few times, the dignified lady, and the pride is proud, and people can't help but sigh: Although the hummingbird is small, it is a divine bird!
Qing Shu, October 29, 2013.