Embrace the light

Today is a day trip to Forest Park.

Yi An and the others arrived at their destination by car. After getting off the car, they stood at the gate of the park and looked at the towering ancient trees deep in the park.

Yes, the scenic spots that Ian and the others are going to visit today are the ancient trees in the forest park. They are called Senlan Wanming trees.

Looking from the gate of the park, the ancient trees tower into the sky, tall and straight.And when you come to these ancient trees, you will be able to appreciate the hugeness of these ancient trees.

There are a total of three towering trees in the park, two of which have thicker trunks with a trunk diameter of about 2000 meters, and one that looks younger with a trunk diameter of about 800 meters.The three ancient trees have existed for more than a thousand years.

The three trees form a triangle, and the distance between each two trees is about 5000 meters. In addition to a sightseeing building built on their outer centers, a sightseeing building is also built on the outside of each of them.The three outer sightseeing buildings are not connected to each other, but the inner sightseeing building is connected to the main sightseeing building.However, the inner sightseeing building is only convenient for building a sightseeing corridor with the main sightseeing building, and it does not have sightseeing straight elevators or spiral stairs.

Tickets for the outer sightseeing buildings are priced separately and cannot be used universally. Mino booked tickets for the main sightseeing building for his group.

There are six elevators in the sightseeing building. Visitors can take the elevator to the designated floor for sightseeing, or they can take the spiral staircase to go sightseeing floor by floor.

But below 200 meters, only the trunk can be seen, and above 200 meters, branches and leaves begin to appear.

Yi'an and his team followed the usual tourist choice, first took the straight elevator to the [-]th floor, and then took the spiral staircase to enter the sightseeing corridor to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

Today's theme is actually to appreciate ancient trees and birds.

On the branches at a height of more than 300 to [-] meters, there are many bird nests, including bowl-shaped, basket-shaped, barrel-shaped, honeycomb-shaped, etc., in various shapes and sizes.

Tourists are not allowed to use flash when taking pictures, nor can they feed the birds, and it is strictly forbidden to catch birds and eggs.There are dozens of cameras on the sightseeing corridor on each floor. Once it is found that intentionally hurting birds or damaging bird nests, violators will be expelled from Senlanxing and will be permanently banned from entering.

The bird nest that Ian is photographing is a bowl-shaped bird nest on the 77th floor. There are three birds in the nest, which seems to be a family of three.

The father bird is the largest. Its head is orange-red, its neck and belly are white, and the feathers on its wings and tail are yellowish-brown.The mother bird is small in size, with a light blue top of the head, white neck and belly, and blue-black feathers on the wings and tail.The color of the head and wings of the baby bird follows the mother, and the color of the tail follows the father.At this moment, the three members of this family are staring at Ian with their heads tilted.

Their eyes are black and round like black beans, and their bodies are chubby and chubby. The way they tilt their heads together is very cute.

Ian took a family portrait of them, and then showed them the photos on his phone from a distance.

"I don't know if you have seen your own appearance, you are very beautiful, very cute, and you are waxy elves."

"Jiujiu~~" was the baby bird shaking its head and talking to Ian.

"Chirp Chirp~ You guys~ Chirp Chirp~ Cute~ Chirp Chirp~ Beautiful." Ian hoped that the baby bird would understand better by expressing it this way.

The father bird and the mother bird straightened their heads during their conversation, and squatted down behind the baby bird.The baby bird felt that its tail was being suppressed, and turned back to push its father's big round body with its head, "Chirp—" Then it rubbed its head on its mother's abdomen, "Choo—"

"Heng." Ian laughed a few times, and said to Heng who was beside him: "Baby bird is so cute, and she will sue."

What Minow is photographing is a brooding mother bird with a light blue head and belly and taupe wings and tail.At this time, it was looking at Mino's camera very cooperatively.

"This may be relative to the three I photographed." Ian showed Mino the family portrait of birds he photographed. Although the coat color of this bird and the other family were different, they were very similar in body shape.

"The birds here are very well-behaved." Harvey inserted his head between the two of them, "They are even more cute and cute than the pet birds of Imperial City, they are very calm when taking pictures, and even know how to look at the camera and pose beautifully. "

Mino agreed, "Maybe it's because Senlanxing protects them very well, so they are very friendly to humans and don't reject humans' approach."

Everyone took many beautiful photos of the beautiful birds, and then continued to walk up.

When they came to a short melon-shaped bird's nest, everyone stopped in their tracks.

This bird's nest is approximately cylindrical, and the bird's entrance and exit is a hole on the side parallel to everyone's line of sight.At this time, two small gray heads appeared in the small hole, probably because of the square black line in the middle of the face, these two little birds looked very upright and serious.

Seeing everyone stopped in front of its nest, the two of them stared at the eight people "seriously" for a few seconds, then turned around and hid their heads in the bird's nest, revealing only two chubby gray and white buttocks .

"Haha." Gene laughed loudly, "We were turned down by two little guys."

Harvey also felt the same way, and he said to the two little birds nastyly: "If you don't want to slap your face, just pat your little butts, and then go back to the Imperial Capital to show the people of the whole country your little butts." OK?"

The two little birds ignored his threat, shook their chubby buttocks a few times, and continued to hide their heads in the nest.

Everyone continued to walk up, and saw a few baby birds waiting to be fed in a big bird's nest, calling their parents all the time, with their mouths wide open, which can be called "big mouth".

Ian was very surprised that they can open the upper and lower mouths almost 180 degrees.

Seeing Ian and Heng stopped in front of them, one of the young birds suddenly flapped its wings and flew into Ian's arms, and then continued to open its mouth wide.

It looks like something to eat, but there are regulations in the park that tourists are not allowed to feed.

Ian was at a loss, looked at Heng, and then at the baby bird in his arms, feeling very helpless.

"I'm not violating the park rules, am I? It came to touch the porcelain by itself, not me first."

Heng asked Ian to wait here, and then went to the service desk on this floor to find a waiter.

The attendant gently picks up the baby bird with gloved hands and places it in a square bird holder, which is then extended to return the baby bird to its original nest.

"It looks very hungry. Do you have a monopoly on feed like small bugs and small fish? Can you buy it to feed them?"

The waiter shook his head, "We don't participate in their survival trajectory. If artificially intervening in their diet, it will be very detrimental to their survival in the wild. It is better to wait for their parents to come back, and then feed them by the bird parents themselves."

Ian could only nod his head. The bird that was put back looked a little depressed, and called to Ian a few more times. Seeing that Ian didn't give it food, it just lay down in the nest sullenly.

Ian silently apologized a few times, then walked a little further away, quietly observing its movements from a distance.

After a while, the young birds in the nest suddenly opened their mouths more violently, and soon a big bird flew to them.

With the feeding of their parents, the chicks really quickly calmed down.

When Yi'an and Heng caught up with the first few people, they were looking at two young birds who were in love.

The top of the head, wings and tail feathers of the female bird are all sky blue, and the abdomen is a blue to white gradient. The top of the head, wings and tail feathers of the male bird are all orange, and the abdomen is a gradient of orange to white.At this time, the two little birds were standing on a branch, and they were touching each other's heads, combing their feathers, and sometimes rubbing against each other, so close.

However, it attracts people to stop because, as long as the female bird looks at other birds, the male bird will immediately jump to the branch in front of it, spread its beautiful big tail, and show its beauty to the female bird. It just blocked the female bird's view of other birds.And once the female bird's attention returns to him, the male bird flies back and continues to chat with the female bird.

Ian, Mino and Harvey all recorded videos of these two little birds, recording this bird spirit and jealous jar.

Harvey said with emotion: "Is this the vinegar spirit in the bird world?"

Alex lamented, "Why can you be shown affection when you look at a bird?"

Gene sighed as well. "The birds are in pairs, but I'm alone."

Ian smiled, "It's a matter of time before you meet your partner. Maybe they both waited for a long time before they fell in love."

Mino agreed, "Don't be pessimistic, stop envious of others, oh no, it's the beginning of self-confidence."

As the only couple in the small team, Jessica and Liang Xiao were not affected in the slightest, and the audience just stood quietly watching in the sad spring and autumn.

Harvey and Alex glanced at them both, feeling even more devastated.And Jean, of course, would not look at the two of them.

Continuing to go up, everyone was surprised to find that the tree actually bore fruit.The waiter said that the fruit is not edible, but it is a small snack for the birds on the tree.Because the taste is not good, the birds actually don't eat the red fruit very much, but occasionally they don't find enough rations. When they come back in the evening, they will eat a few fruits to fill their stomachs.There are also birds who are very bored and will peck a few to change their taste.

A few people stopped and went, and took many beautiful photos of the birds and the various bird nests.

Before I knew it, I had reached the [-]th floor. At this time, everyone was a little tired and hungry, so they went to the rest area to eat some food to replenish their energy.

After a break, they continued to walk up, when the group of people suddenly heard a burst of singing.

Following the sound, it turned out that several birds were singing together.

The reason why it is called an ensemble is because their calls at the moment are not noisy, but very rhythmic and pleasant to the ear.

In addition to the tourists who stopped and listened in the viewing gallery, there were also those birds who did not participate in the music.The eyes of the tourists and the idle birds are watching the few birds that cooperate seamlessly. At the end of the song, the tourists give applause, and the idle birds dance.

Although it's just a few swayings of the body and a few flapping of the wings, the dance known as the bird world is all right.

According to the service personnel, this kind of song performance is a kind of self-entertainment game for the birds. They do not play regularly every day, and the bird players who play are not fixed.What kind of music can be heard is a random event.

Everyone walked up all the way, and every [-] floors or so, they enjoyed a piece of music. Along the way, they enjoyed a total of three pieces of music.

The singing performance ends on the [-]th floor. The talent of the birds on this sightseeing floor is to speak, using human language.

"It's similar to the parrot in our imperial capital." Ian said to Heng.

Heng nodded, but most of the parrots he saw on the tablet had bright feathers, but the group in front of him were all black, from head to tail, from eyes to paws.

They are standing on the five branches at the moment, and the order of speaking is from left to right and from top to bottom.They did not read poems, but had a very ordinary conversation.

"I am today.", "Caught.", "A bug."

"You are so.", "Big idiot.", "I caught it.", "Two worms."

"Two idiots.", "I caught it.", "Three worms."

"Be polite.", "Don't scold the bird.", "The bird is angry.", "Peck you bald."

"Very violent.", "Scary.", "Unnecessary."

After listening to the conversation of these birds, Ian asked the waiter beside him, who specially taught these words?

The waiter waved his hands and smiled, "They are very smart, but these words are the lines of a bird-themed children's cartoon by Sen Lanxing. I don't know where they heard them, and they rehearse a few scenes from time to time."

"Haha." Ian laughed, "It's really smart and cute."

Harvey said: "Although learning by yourself, it does look cute and smart. However, teaching them some poems and the like, does it sound more intelligent?"

Mino said, "Now there is a hint of stupidity in such cleverness, which is more cute. In their world, there is no red tape, whether it is elegant or low-end, it is nothing more than self-entertainment."

The higher you go, the lower the temperature, but in general it is not much different from the temperature at the bottom.

As they walked, they suddenly saw the flowers of this big tree. Its flowers were white, small, and exuded a burst of fragrance.

The birds in the flowering layer seem to be very beautiful, and you can see the inserted flowers around their nests, and even find traces of flowers in their feathers.

Ian took photos of the birds with a few small flowers on their wings, as if thanking Ian for appreciating their beauty, and one of the birds flew lightly and landed on Ian's head.

Then, as if he had found an ideal resting place, the bird used his little feet to pluck Ian's hair a few times, making a fluffy and soft nest, and squatted comfortably on top of Ian's head.

The belly of this little bird is white with orange, and the top of the head, wings, and tail feathers are all blue-gray.It quietly squatted on Ian's head, and then looked at Mino and the others with its two bright round eyes. Seeing that Mino and Harvey took pictures of themselves and Ian, the bird closed its eyes as if finishing work. Started to rest.

Mino showed the photos taken by Ian. Ian really wanted to reach out and touch this naughty little guy, but remembered that the waiter always wore gloves when holding them, so he had to feel the little guy's tenderness through the weight on his head. cute.

"Nonuo, can you take some photos with Heng?"

Ian La Guoheng, with the cutie on her head, recorded this beautiful moment with Heng beside her.

Everyone waited together for a while, but the bird still didn't fly away, so Harvey called the waiter for help, and the waiter put the little bird back on the branch with a bird holder.

Ian waved to it and said goodbye.

When he no longer saw flowers, Ian saw clouds.

He reached out to touch Bai Mang beside him, but he couldn't grasp anything.

There are not many birds on it, but they are all larger in size and the branches are thicker.

After passing through several layers of whiteness, everyone came to the top sightseeing gallery.

Looking up at the top of the tree, there is a huge nest, which seems to have a radius of about 1.5 meters.

At this time, it is almost dusk, the sunset is warm yellow, and the sunset glow is red.

Standing on the viewing gallery at the top for a while, I saw dense black dots rushing towards everyone from far and near. It was the time when thousands of birds were returning to their nests.

The figure flying in the front is the largest. It was the size of a black bean at first, and then became the size of a bowl, basin, and cylinder until it fell into its own nest, covering the round nest with a diameter of about 1.5 meters.

The king of birds returned home, not caring about the tourists looking at it from the corridor.After all the birds returning to the nest with it flew back to the old tree, it stood up, held its head high, stretched its neck, and uttered a series of calls, and when its voice fell, all the birds on the tree echoed in unison. stand up.

Thousands of birds sang together, and the sound shook the world.

Everyone had to cover their ears. After about two or three minutes, the tree returned to normal decibels.

And this means that the returning birds have another day of hunting and surviving successfully.