I saw the northern silver carp flying in winter for the first time.

Photography: Zhuang m

In John Burroughs' works, songbirds of Songbirds are talented singers, and their wonderful performances can inspire people to feel the beauty and harmony in the deepest part of the world.

The northern red-tailed silver pheasant is one of the passerine birds.

But the northern silver carp I know is a master of silence in winter. Throughout the winter, he proudly insisted that "silence is golden"; He is also a resident bird and our neighbor who will never be separated; A "bird" is solitary and widely distributed, but only exists in the countryside, but there is no him in the city; His feathers are colorful. He also prefers to be friends with humans. Although you observed him well, he found someone watching him, and he was not in a hurry to fly there. Instead, he made various poses and walked around the branches for a while. Look, I won't be looked down upon by you for this! As if he were muttering proudly to the sky.

The first time I saw the northern red-tailed silver carp, I was really amazed by its bright brown-red abdomen. That afternoon, I stood on the side of the road, looking around, looking everywhere to see if I could find anything. Sure enough, a bird standing on the peach branch next door is facing me. His position is slightly higher than mine. It's the bright belly that broke into the camera, until the tip of the tail is so bright.

When John Burroughs described the blue robin, she said that nature wanted to comfort the blue sky and the earth when making the blue robin, so she gave him the color of the blue sky on his back and the color of the earth on his chest.

Isn't it the color of autumn when the northern red-tailed owl faces the earth? That bright and beautiful color that indicates a bumper harvest!

Since then, I can see him almost every day, either standing on the osmanthus branch in the small garden or on the peach branch or loquat branch next door. In the wild, I often see his figure on the wires.

The northern red-tailed owl has a dark face and a pair of black pearl-like eyes that are smart and shiny; His sharp mouth is bright and black; The throat, neck and head are brown and black and connected with the upper back; A curtain of bright iron gray hair hangs down from the top of the head, just like a beautiful headscarf of a Uighur girl, with a shallow silver thread at the connection with the dark brown upper back.

The back waist and tail feathers are colorful, just like a dress. The most striking thing is two large white patches in the middle of hazel wings; There is a reddish-brown triangle between his wings, which is slightly darker than his abdomen and the top is facing down. In fact, this is because his entire lower back is dark brown-red, but only one side is exposed by wings; The tail feather is also slightly dark brown-red, echoing the triangle above, with a light brown and a light white in the middle.

When the northern red-tailed owl perches on a branch, its beautiful tail likes to swing up and down as fast as the wind. At the same time, I nod my head and cock my tail from time to time, and my head and upper body burn together, as if I were making a solemn promise to the sky and the earth at the same time!

His foraging habits are also like egrets and brown-backed white workers-waiting for rabbits, instead of constantly searching and pecking on the ground like other birds. He always stands on a short branch near the trunk and observes the ground easily and happily-he "enjoys" every meal as a kind of food. He catches prey as accurately as a gun aims at a target. He threw himself on the ground, picked up the target and soon flew to the branch just now. Branches are like his dining table, where he enjoys them slowly, either bugs, seeds or grass seeds.

The northern red-tailed silver carp is distributed in China, Northeast Asia, Japan and Indochina Peninsula. Habitat in subalpine forests, shrubs and glades in summer, and lowland shrubs and cultivated land in winter. Standing in a prominent habitat. Feeding on insects, plant seeds and fruits.