Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 185: Spring has not arrived yet, but the birds have returned

When she heard Chen Ying ask where her children had gone, the mother civet cat said that they wanted to go out for an adventure recently and would not go far, just hanging around the village.

As for spending the night, you can sleep anywhere, such as in a tree hole, a cave in the ground, or a woodshed. You don't necessarily have to go back to sleep.

More importantly, during the New Year period, there are many people and children in the village, and many children would go and harass the civet cats when they have nothing to do, so the children don’t like to go back to rest.

After hearing what the mother civet cat said, Chen Ying understood where the problem lay.

After returning home, he called his aunt and gave the key to the house to Yin Li's sister, asking her to come three times a week to clean the house and lock the door at other times to prevent anyone from entering or leaving.

The neighbor next door looked a little embarrassed and didn't feel like arguing with Chen Ying.

The one who took the lead in causing trouble for the civet kitten was his child.

I had just arrived at the shelter area built in the village, before I had time to open the door, when I heard people on the hillside shouting that wild boars had entered the village.

Previously, wild boars were classified as protected animals and could not be hunted at will. In recent years, villages near the mountains have been severely invaded by wild boars.

In many places where wild boars were rampant, wild boars have been removed from the list of "three-protected areas".

But removing them from the list does not mean that wild boars are unprotected. If you want to hunt wild boars, you must go through formal procedures and get approval.

Xiaozhai Village is relatively relatively good, but last year, several households in Linluo Village had their crops destroyed by wild boars, and they could only get a small amount of compensation.

Last autumn, a wild boar broke into Linluo Village and almost injured someone. Fortunately, the men in the village came out in groups with carrying poles and hoes to drive the wild boar away.

One winter, the whole village was worried that the wild boar would come again.

There were two large and five small wild boars that came to Xiaozhai Village this time, but no boars were seen.

The wild boars were walking on the mountain road. They were frightened by the villagers holding things and ran quickly into the valley.

A brave young man went over to take a look, and came back to say that there were a few wild boars over there.

"That boar was so big, almost two meters long. It was eating in the valley, and the grunting sounds it made were scary."

The valley is less than 500 meters away from the village. The elderly in the village often go to the slope to collect firewood for burning. When they heard this, they were very worried and went to the village committee to ask them to drive the wild boar away.

Chen Ying found cadre Xiao Qin and asked him about it, and found out that in just three to five years, there had been several incidents of wild boars entering several villages and causing trouble.

Although there were no casualties, crops, vegetable fields, and the chicken coops and duck sheds of several households were destroyed by wild boars.

"There are too many wild boars here. Do you want to apply to kill a few?"

The application procedure is rather complicated, and it is necessary to confirm that wild boars are indeed a disaster before the application can be approved.

Chen Ying covered his mouth with his fist and coughed a few times. Cadre Xiao Qin had an idea and followed him out the door.

"Let's not talk about approval for now. I'll see if I can find a way to drive these wild boars away. There used to be no wild boars living in the wild boar forest over at the Rowan Valley after the old wild boar died. Maybe this group of wild boars can be driven over there."

The proliferation of wild boars means that the number of top predators here is a little less. He is worried that the big cats will have too much impact on the ecology of Jiamugou. With this group of wild boars, at least the pressure on the food chain can be reduced.

The meat of young muntjac is delicious, but the meat of young wild boar is also good.

Let nature resolve its competition.

With something on his mind, Chen Ying did not stay in the village for long. He hurried back to the first aid station, found Jin Ya, and asked her to pass a message to Sister Bao and her family.

“The pork tenderloin is delicious!”

Jin Ya's mouth was watering. "I'll go find Sister Leopard right now. Can I eat one too?" "Just eat whatever you can hunt. Who can stop you? But be careful. Big pigs are very powerful, especially boars. They are covered in armor. Be careful not to break your teeth."

Jin Ya is not afraid at all. It also doesn't like eating big pigs because the meat is tough and hard on the teeth.

The little piglets are so tender that you can eat two in one meal!
Watching Jin Ya taking Xiao Jin Chong to find Sister Bao, Chen Ying went back to the small building to take an afternoon nap.

We haven’t finished eating the meat dishes from the Chinese New Year yet, so just heat up some and cook a pot of noodles and we’ll have a hearty dinner.

After waking up after seven o'clock, Lao Gao and Xia Sen were carrying out the final processing steps on the nest house.

There are seven or eight of them, large and small, with different styles and an original ecological atmosphere, which will definitely be well received by the birds.

"I plan to install these three on the trees in front. We can start after dinner. I will install these three tonight and install the others tomorrow."

The three small nesting houses are provided for small birds, and the cameras are also small and fixed in the corners of the houses, which can just capture the entire interior of the nesting house.

When it comes to climbing trees, Chen Ying can look down on Xia Sen.

He and Lao Gao each stood on a tree and quickly fixed the nest.

There are certain requirements for installing a nest house, as it must be placed on a tree that is more than six meters high.

It should be fixed on the main trunk to avoid tilting left or right or leaning backward. If necessary, it can be tilted forward slightly to prevent rainwater from falling into the nest.

The entrance and exit of the nest house should face the east or southeast, sheltered from the wind and facing the sun, so that the parent birds feel safe and can lay eggs and hatch them early.

The hanging location is usually chosen at the edge of the forest with rich vegetation and sufficient water resources, or at the junction of agricultural areas and forest areas.

At the same time, pay attention to the place you choose, which should be close to a water source and have rich vegetation, so that birds can feed and hide easily.

After installation, it is best to apply a layer of soil or grass branches mixed with soil on the top of the nest roof to better blend into nature.

When making a nest, be sure not to let in any light. If there are gaps, you can fill them with wood glue, apply a layer of mud, or use bark as camouflage.

Artificial nests are mostly found in city parks or green belts. Lao Gao built this in the forest to better observe the hatching of various birds.

So when he makes it, he will choose the material and size according to the type of bird and different preferences.

Even the opening of the nest house is designed with particular care, such as oval or irregular shapes, which can attract different kinds of birds to live in.

After the nest house is installed, some arrangements need to be made to make the birds feel comfortable so that they will move in.

Lao Gao himself was the only one who did the detailed work of setting up the nest house.

Under his arrangement, Chen Ying and Xia Sen fixed the small bird houses on the trees, and then drew distribution maps and labeled the trees and bird nests to facilitate future patrol inspections according to the corresponding diagrams.

Lao Gao could not tell when he might go on a business trip, so the subsequent inspection and maintenance work would be taken over by his colleagues at the Bird Research Institute.

A week later, with the assistance of the staff of the Bird Research Institute, all ten large nest houses were installed, and then they were carried to the designated location for installation.

Laoxionggou and the Wild Boar Forest are the favorite settlements of falcons. There is also a broad-leaved forest in the middle, where more than a dozen species of birds breed and live every year.

By early February, they had installed fifty nests and equipped them with twenty sets of high-definition cameras.

In the second week after the nest house was installed, when I got up, I heard a lot more bird calls around me. It felt like thousands of birds surrounded the first aid station overnight.

(Let me see who's staying up late)
(End of this chapter)