Villagers' homes attract 2 1 nest swallows.
Aunt Feng, 60, runs an agricultural store on the east side of the village. The reporter saw in her shop that around the roof, which is more than 10 meters long and more than 3 meters wide, there are corners. On both sides of the beam, there are swallow nests of different sizes, and the swallows inside chirp from time to time. One, two, three ... The reporter counted 20 swallow nests, plus a nest in the house behind Feng, and 2 1 nest swallows "settled" in her house. "This year is the most."
These "tenants" fly back and forth over the house, up and down, hovering and playing, light and flexible, and occasionally make a few short and sharp calls during the flight. Under the eaves, Aunt Feng led her grandson to play for two weeks, just like a beautiful picture of people living in harmony with swallows.
Aunt Feng recalled that sometimes dozens of swallows would play in her house, which attracted many villagers in the same village to stop and watch.
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Aunt Feng said that her house was built 18 years ago. As soon as the house was built, the swallows came to settle down and build their nests. At first, only one nest was built in the corner, and then more and more nests were built, one by one, and now it has increased to more than 20 nests. Swallows come to hatch young swallows every year. Some of them hatch in a nest and fly back the next year. "Aunt said.
In the interview, the reporter saw that swallows often fly back with worms in their mouths, while swallows' babies look out with their mouths wide open by the nest. "These little swallows have just been born. As soon as the door is opened every morning, dozens of big swallows shout and fly out for food. " Aunt Feng talks about swallows as if she were talking about her own children.
Do so many swallows nest, which brings troubles to life? In the face of a reporter's question, Aunt Feng said with a smile: "Nothing else, that is, the droppings of swallows have dropped a lot. However, the family is used to it. Just nail a board under the bird's nest. "
Aunt Feng's family thinks that swallows bring them more joy, and watching swallows play every day adds fun to ordinary life.
Farmers' kindness to swallows is the main reason.
Aunt Feng's family has three daughters. Not only the old couple love these "tenants", but also their daughter and son-in-law love them. "No one doubts that this nest is a board nailed by the second son-in-law."
The reporter walked around Xu Xiang Village and found that other farmers in the village also had swallows nesting, but there were only three or four nests at most. Why do so many swallows come to Aunt Feng's house to build their nests every year? Wei Shuangquan, a 67-year-old villager who runs a miscellaneous grain processing shop across the street from Aunt Feng's house, said that he runs a miscellaneous grain processing shop and there are bugs in the miscellaneous grains. After a long time, there are midges. When the insects fly out in the air, the swallows can eat enough, and they are happy to live here.
However, more villagers believe that for many years, Aunt Feng and her family have taken good care of swallows and constantly educated their children and grandchildren to love them. It was the love of Aunt Feng's family that attracted the swallows.
In this regard, Meng Derong, a bird expert, director of Cangzhou Wildlife Protection and Rescue Center and associate professor of biology at Cangzhou Normal University, said that the Feng family can frequently attract many swallows to nest because the house structure of the Feng family is suitable for swallows to nest and there are suitable food sources around, but the main reason is that the Feng family is friendly and never bothers these swallows.