“是不是怕自己的高大身躯压坏了鸟宝宝？” 所以凭直觉，我认为这只就是鸟爸，另一只是鸟妈。那个鸟爸还有个特点，就是有时先回来也不进巢，就那么清闲自在地东看看，西瞧瞧。也不等鸟妈回来，没多大一会儿，一抖落翅膀又飞走了，像个贪玩的男孩。 我还发现它们的听力实在是太强了。当我又一次看到它们俩头对头站在鸟巢的边沿时，我拿起手机刚要拍照，鸟爸立刻警觉着飞走了，而鸟妈则快速坐进巢里。 有个疑问。记得前年（2020年），知更鸟首次在我家葡萄架上做窝。那是在六月份，一个多月之后，也就是在七月中旬最炎热的那几天，小鸟才出壳。可今年怎么会三月来筑巢？四月中下旬筑巢竣工，生蛋，5月9日小鸟就出来了？难道知更鸟也有早婚早育？ 我又在想，它们为什么那么执着地选择在屋檐下筑巢呢？是不是因为直到5月9日，葡萄藤上也还是空空如也，不像前年六月份，葡萄架上已是密密麻麻的叶子。在叶子中间搭窝，厚厚的叶子可以遮风挡雨。想通这一节，我不由的惊叹，这知更鸟也太聪明了！知道什么季节在什么环境下寻找最佳的安家地点。神奇的大自然啊！我每天进进出出都非常小心，轻手轻脚地开门、关门，生怕惊扰了知更鸟一家。它们似乎对我很信任，知道我不会伤害它们，我每次进出，鸟妈都若无其事地静坐在巢中，任凭我和邻居打招呼，大声聊天儿。先前我每天弹奏钢琴练习歌唱会把门关上，怕影响鸟妈妈孵蛋。后来感觉它们跟我越来越熟，我就干脆把门打开，隔着玻璃门，我可以近距离观赏它们，同时也让这个鸟家庭作为我的听众。“这可是免费的音乐福利呀（这可是免费的音乐会呀），鸟宝宝们将来会不会有异常的歌唱天赋呢？”我得意地想。Hello everybody, my name is Dave Page. Today I am going to read part two of a wonderful story called The Robins Return by Yu Rong Su. Part Two is entitled “The Baby Birds Are Born”
2)The Baby Birds Are Born
On May 10’th, I observed that the mother bird was consistently standing on the outer edge of the nest looking down into it. Sometimes she used her beak to pat the eggs inside. She would work on the edges of the nest to arrange it. And she pulled feathers from her chest and used these as a quilt for the baby.
The bird couple frequently relieved one another to act as a guard, and many times neither of them were in the nest. Could it be that the baby birds had hatched?
For fear of disturbing them, I dared not go up to see them. A few days back, I took a photo of the bird eggs. I was worried to be sneaking this picture, but the feeling of curiosity and nervousness was quite exciting.After dinner, I simply moved a chair and sat in the house, peeping at the bird's nest through the glass door. Twice, the bird couple stood head-to-head on the edge of the bird's nest, chirping to one another. Then, one went into the middle of the nest and sat, while the other flew away. I guessed that they may have negotiated, one must go out to find food, and the other must stay home to watch over the eggs in the nest. When they were facing each other, I quickly picked up the camera and snapped a photo of them together.I actually could not determine which was the bird father and which was the bird mother, they look almost the same. But I noticed that when they changed the guard, the one robin always flew back, looked inside the nest, made a careful examination, and then sat in the center of the nest. The other robin just stood motionless on the edge of the nest, like a sculpture, or like a soldier standing on sentry, guarding the home. Intuitively, I thought that this was the father bird and the other is the mother bird. Another characteristic of the father was that sometimes he did not enter the nest when he first returned. He just looked east and west so leisurely. He didn’t always wait for Mother Bird to come back. He would wait a bit, then flutter his wings and fly away, like a playful boy. I also found that their hearing was extremely sharp. When I saw the two of them standing head to head on the edge of the nest again, I picked up my camera to take a picture, and the father immediately flew away alertly, while the mother quickly sat in the nest.There is a question. I remember the year before (in 2020), when the robins first made a nest on my grape vines. It was in June, and more than a month later, in the hottest days of mid-July, the birds came out of their shells. But why had they begun to build a nest in March this year? The nesting was completed in the last two weeks of April, the eggs were laid, and the baby birds would emerge from their eggs on May 10. Do robins also have early marriages and early births? I was thinking again, why did they choose to build their nest under the eaves of the house? Is it because until May 10th, the vines were still empty, unlike in June of the previous year, the grape trellis was already densely packed with leaves by June. If they built their nests in the middle of the leaves, the thick leaves can keep out the wind and rain. Thinking about this, I couldn't help but marvel, these robins are too smart! They know what season and what environment to find the best place to live. Amazing nature! Every day I go in and out very carefully, opening and closing the door lightly, for fear of disturbing the Robin family. They seem to trust me and know that I won't hurt them, and every time I go in and out, the mother bird sits quietly in the nest, letting me greet my neighbors and chat loudly. Before I played the piano every day to practice singing, I would close the door, for fear of affecting the mother bird hatching her eggs. Later, I felt that they were more and more familiar with me, so I simply opened the door, and through the glass door, I could watch them up close, and also let this bird family be my audience. "This is a free music concert! Will the baby birds have unusual singing talents in the future?" I thought proudly.
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