Chapter 4: Riding a cage net and catching eaglets by the river
"Okay, as long as there is chicken to eat, I will do whatever the second brother asks me to do!" The youngest agreed happily.
Seeing that the brother and sister had such a good relationship, the mother no longer scolded the youngest, but said helplessly: "You know how to spoil her! It's still early for snow, and autumn has just begun. The leaves haven’t fallen off yet, where can I catch her?”
Yue Feng grinned: “Hey, the mountain man has a clever plan!”
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After dinner was quickly finished, the sky became completely dark.
Yue Feng took off the flashlight, the only electrical appliance in the house, from the chest of drawers and led his sister to the yard.
"Second brother, what do you want me to help you with?" the youngest asked curiously, tilting his head.
Yue Feng pointed to the eaves of the warehouse made of straw and said: "There are thieves from home living here. I can't reach in. Please help me reach out and catch them. I will be useful!"
"Hometown thief? Hometown thief is delicious when burned!" The foodie quietly heard the hometown sparrows under the eaves. He didn't listen to what Yue Feng said at all. All he could think about was burning the hometown thief and eating it.
Yue Feng shook his head: "No, I am of great use to this thief from home! It is directly related to whether I can eat half-and-half chicken in two days, be quiet and be obedient!"
"Okay!" in the little girl In her head, she must have thought that the Shaban Chicken was more delicious and had more meat than the Thief from her hometown, so Jingjing suppressed her greed and agreed.
After a brief communication, Yue Feng came under the eaves with a flashlight in one hand and Jingjing in the other.
When it was getting dark in the evening, Yue Feng had already observed it early. There was a sparrow nesting under the eaves of the warehouse for the night. If he wanted to catch kites early tomorrow morning, this sparrow was indispensable as a lure. .
I saw Yue Feng briefly scanning under the eaves with a flashlight, and then selected a small grass hole the size of an egg and whispered to his sister: "There should be one or two in here! Don't take it after you find it. Don’t say anything if you’re afraid, there should be others under the roof, don’t be scared!”
"Yeah! I've done it before, I'm not afraid!" Jingjing responded.
The next second, Yue Feng held the flashlight in his mouth to shine on the grass hole, then raised his sister with both hands and approached the eaves steadily.
Yue Feng's guess was accurate. Jingjing's little hand could just reach into the grass hole. She grabbed it with her little hand and took out two furry thieves from her hometown.
"Second brother, caught them both!!" Jingjing was very excited, but she still remembered Yue Feng's instructions just now, lowered her voice, and grabbed the two sparrows with her little hands, not daring to let go.
"Don't be nervous, put it in the cage!" Yue Feng put the youngest child back on the ground, and then opened the small rolling cage at his feet.
The two thieves from home were put into the cage, and as soon as they entered the cage, they began to struggle wildly.
"Good job, there should be two more at the window! Keep going!"
"Aoao!"
Soon, Yue Feng repeated his old trick and gave After my sister pointed out the location, the youngest put her fleshy little hands under the eaves again.
There was a little accident this time. Jingjing only managed to hold on to one. The other struggled a few times and broke away from Jingjing's hand, leaving only a handful of tail feathers.
"One flew away! It even pulled a daddy in my hand!" Jingjing stuffed the one in her palm into the cage and muttered unhappily.
"Okay, three is enough! Go inside, wash your hands, and go to bed early!" Yue Feng comforted his sister, then checked the rolling cage to make sure it was closed, and then carried the cage into the house. .
It was around five o'clock the next morning, when it was just dawn, Yue Feng got up from the kang early.
My mother was making polenta over the fire in the kitchen outside. Yue Feng didn’t even eat breakfast. He packed two nests, carried a cage, picked up the hanging net and the three-piece set of Little Eagle, and left home, heading straight to the outside of the village. riverside grove.
It is also wise to choose a place to catch eaglets. Small raptors such as kites (sparrowhawks) and pine cones (Japanese sparrowhawks) have a relatively long migration time period in this season. Old people People say that they will wait for the wind, that is, the air current, and fly southward in a concentrated manner.
The spring eagle is a reproductive migration. The time period from the wintering place to the breeding place is relatively short, up to half a month. The migration time span of raptors in autumn is relatively long. Different raptors will be distributed in batches from the beginning of summer to light snow. In addition, some eagles in the low forest choose not to migrate and spend the winter in their breeding grounds.
It has just passed the cold dew, and there has been no strong north wind in recent days, so the raptors will choose to move around in places where there is ample food.
Where in the wild is there enough food? We can't live without woods and water sources.
The place where Yue Feng chose to get off the cage net was such a place to catch the eaglets.
This is a small forest mixed with ash and aspen trees. The site is very clean, and there are some small bushes in the outer area near the river bank.
Yue Feng walked around the forest by the river and quickly chose a location suitable for lowering the cage net.
The so-called riding cage net is actually very simple. It is to choose a suitable place, and then hang the mesh pieces on the trees on both sides and temporarily fix them with live buckles. In the area under the net, the vertical mesh outline A long rolling cage is placed in the direction of the line, and a lure is placed in the cage.
In this way, if there are raptors around, it is easy to spot the bird in the rolling cage. If the raptor attacks the bird in the cage, the bird will run away left and right in the long cage, and the raptor is in the process of pursuit. Zhongyi accidentally hit the net and pulled the live button open.
The net fell due to force, and the raptor was trapped in the net.
This single-piece cage net is very simple and convenient for catching small and medium-sized raptors. If conditions permit, you can also choose to arrange several more net pieces in different places to increase the success rate of capture.
Of course, Yue Feng only had a piece of net in his hand now. After quickly setting it up, he started wandering around the river.
In the forest at the head of the village in the morning, various birds were chirping one after another. The temperature was about seven or eight degrees, which was not too cold, but it was not too comfortable either. There was some dew on the legs of his trousers as he walked, but Yue Feng didn't care. He strolled around and looked around, looking for some tiny traces.
Before the snow fell, the traces by the river were not easy to identify, but Yue Feng still relied on his eyesight and discovered the traces of Huangpizi and Shabanji.
He silently remembered all these traces in his heart. When the eagle training is completed, this area will also be Yue Feng's hunting ground.
Slowly, it gets brighter and the sun rises.
Unconsciously, several hours have passed, and Yue Feng circled back to the position of the cage net.
From a distance, I saw two buckles on the cage net falling off.
Yue Feng stepped forward quickly and soon found the little eagle trapped in a net next to the rolling cage.
An Autumn Flower Breast (subadult female Japanese Jayhawk).
The females of raptors are always larger than the males, and this Jayhawk is no exception.
This little eagle weighs about three taels, and its pupils are narrowed into needle-like shapes due to fright. Its whole body is covered with the unique feather patterns of sub-adults, which can be recognized by a knowledgeable person at a glance.
Yue Feng’s target today is a larger female sparrow hawk. This kind of autumn flower that has just emerged from the nest a few months ago is not his target. Yue Feng gently plucks the hawk from the net. , and let it go casually.
After rearranging the riding cage net and checking the trap under the net again to confirm that there was no problem, Yue Feng found a thick tree thirty or forty meters away from the riding cage net and hid in it. Taking a nap under the sun.
Less than half an hour later, when Yue Feng felt a little sleepy, he heard a rapid and sharp sound.
He glanced at the cage net and found that another eagle had knocked the net down.
A few dozen meters away, Yue Feng discovered that the eagle that hit the net this time was obviously a size larger. At this moment, the eagle's wings were entangled in the net, and it kept struggling, but the harder it struggled, the tighter it became. .
Yue Feng stepped forward quickly, took one look at it, and hurriedly knelt down to put it away.
Caught a kite!
(End of this chapter)