96. The Crane Comes
Chen Song walked along the ice lake for a while, found a piece of solid ground protruding from the lake, and then directed Goble to drive the Ford pickup truck over.
Then, he leaned on the front of the Ford pickup truck and sipped the ice drink.
Looking up, he looked at the blue sky and white clouds, and the sun was shining brightly; looking straight at the waves, birds and fish jumping; he felt that he would always remember the scene in his heart.
But it was not enough to just remember it in his heart. He looked at Goble calmly: "Why are you stunned by the side? Go and borrow a camera to take a photo of me!"
He hasn't been pretending to be on his circle of friends for several days, and his hands are already ready to move and are impatient.
Franciti unloaded a small boat from the car and then laid protective plastic paper by the lake. They worked together to push the boat into the water. The two brothers rowed the boat to find ice.
Brother Dao ran around the lake and suddenly started to bark.
Amid its cry, two birds spread their wings and flew into the sky. One of them circled twice and then dived down. At an extremely fast speed, he rushed over the head of Dao Ge and pulled up again.
At the same time, another bird hovering in the air flew down and flew over Dao Ge's head at high speed like a torpedo attack.
In this way, the two birds took turns to fly towards Brother Dao, driving Brother Dao step by step.
Chen Song asked in wonder, "What's going on?"
Gobl stared at the two birds for a while and said, "This is a long-tailed skua. It must be Dao Ge who discovered their nests. In order to protect their eggs, they drove Dao Ge out."
Chen Song walked over, and Brother Dao suddenly became extremely fierce when he saw him coming, as if the tiger soul was possessed in an instant. It majesticly exploded the hair on the back of its neck, raised its head and chest and roared: "Woop!"
"Okay, you." Chen Song couldn't be contemptuous.
Sure enough, he found a simple bird's nest in a stone pestle by the lake. It was a layer of small branches mixed with some dry grass leaves, which was simply an unfinished building in the bird's nest.
It is different from what Gobl said. There are no bird eggs in the nest, but a nest of birds, six or seven white birds.
Chen Song asked in surprise: "Is this the long-tailed skua?"
Gobl nodded and said, "That's right, this is the young bird of the long-tailed skua."
"But they don't look too similar, right? Did the female bird and Lao Wang give birth to it?" Chen Song said, looking up at the long-tailed skuo with dark brown feathers all over.
Gobl grinned and said, "I won't admit my mistake, because I often caught these birds when I was a child, and this is the young bird of the long-tailed skua."
The birds have grown all their hair, but they can't fly.
A group of little guys stayed together quite fiercely, not afraid of facing the invaders, and kept chirping.
Chen Song dragged Brother Dao away, afraid that the long-tailed skua and his wife would misunderstand, so they ignored the nest of birds.
Not long after, Corey and Franceti came back with a large piece of ice floe, and they were going to work.
After the ice was approaching the lake, Gobl started cutting the ice with a chainsaw.
These ice cubes made of snow are harder than ordinary ice cubes, and of course they are clearer and more valuable.
Corey introduced to Chen Song: "These ice cubes are old. If they came from the bottom of the glacier, they would have to be hundreds of thousands of years old."
Chen Song said in surprise: "Is that so? It's a big eye."
Corey smiled and said, "But I guess they are only tens of thousands of years old. If it were the bottom layer of ice for hundreds of thousands of years, the chainsaw would be very difficult."
The ice was broken down, and Chen Song put on his gloves and started to carry it on the cart.
Because these ice cubes are to be eaten by people, they cannot be contaminated at all and must be inspected by the food security department in the future.
They were busy working hard, and Luo Bingxin turned his head by chance, suddenly covering his mouth and shouted, "Wow, what kind of bird is this? Is this a crane?"
Chen Song stood up and looked back. He saw four big birds standing not far away. They were half a person tall on the ground, with their feathers all over the body being gray and brown. Their body was exactly the same as some cranes, their necks were slender, and their legs were slender like lemons. Their huge wings were elegantly gathered together on both sides of their bodies, gathering together like people and staring at them curiously.
Corey, who was carrying ice cubes, lit up his eyes and said, "This is a sandhill crane. We are lucky. We actually encountered sandhill cranes. They are rarely seen in Iceland. Perhaps this flock of birds flew from Greenland, which is their territory."
The sandhill cranes were very brave. Seeing that a few people didn't care about them, a sandhill crane stepped closer to the car.
At this time, Chen Song saw that the walking posture of the big bird was very interesting, just like Sharu, the protagonist of "Despicable", their bodies were hunched in a ball like a hunched body, and the same stinging rod and long legs, which was really similar.
Suddenly, a sandhill crane ran away, which was very similar to an ostrich and ran very fast.
The sandhill crane ran for a few big steps and suddenly stretched out its head and pecked it in the ground, then a fat mouse appeared in its mouth.
Chen Song was surprised: "Cranes still eat mice? Don't they eat grass seeds or something?"
"Eat grass seeds?" Corey shrugged, "I don't know, I know sandhill cranes like to peck at mice."
The ice cube was broken down and the Corey brothers rowed the boat to find the new ice cubes.
Chen Song had nothing to do, so he sat in the car to practice immortality.
A dog barking woke him up. He opened his eyes and looked at him. He didn't see Brother Dao first, but saw two white-haired heads wearing red hats: two sandhill cranes walked up to him and looked at him curiously.
Brother Dao thought the sandhill crane was going to attack him, so he came to rescue him bravely. His way of rescue was to jump and howl beside him.
Sandhill cranes are not aggressive. They just have curiosity rare among birds. Two sandhill cranes observe him up close, with their eyelids blinking, and there is no ferocity in their black eyes.
Chen Song tentatively reached out his hand, and a sandhill crane immediately put his head in his palm.
This made him so happy that he quickly turned his eyes: Take a photo quickly!
Gradually, two other sandhill cranes also came to him, dancing around him with long necks to watch.
Chen Song has never seen such a scene? But he was so happy.
After seeing this scene, Luo Bingxin quickly ran over excitedly, and she also wanted to have close contact with the sandhill cranes.
As a result, when she got closer, four sandhill cranes spread their wings and soared into the air: "Hulala!" "Hulala!"
All flew away...
Luo Bingxin was frustrated, and she asked Chen Song pitifully: "What's going on with them? Is it possible that the fat girl not only won't be liked by people, but also doesn't like birds?"
Chen Song shook his head firmly and said, "Of course not."
He said what he said in his heart, Luo Bingxin's personality is quite popular.
Luo Bingxin said sadly: "You are comforting me, most people don't like fat girls."
Chen Song said: "It's just the majority. Even if 90% of people don't like fat girls, there are 7 billion people around the world, and 700 million people still like it!"
This took effect, and Luo Bingxin laughed: "Brother Chen, thank you for your comfort, but I'm a little bit swelling when you say this. It turns out that we fat girls have such a potential market."
Chapter completed!