Chapter 194 The little eagle catches pheasants, the art of stopping in the air
No matter how old you are, you are still a child in the eyes of your parents. Zhang Cuilian hugged her precious daughter and patted her on the back a few times, just like coaxing her when she was a child. It's like sleeping with your daughter.
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Zhang Cuilian and her daughter are so at odds with each other. At least Zhang Cuilian and Wang Jianguo know her daughter's attitude.
Zhang Cuilian returned to the east room and told the old man. After learning that her daughter had no objection, Wang Jianguo felt that this matter should be successful.
The couple muttered for a while, but no one noticed that their youngest son Wang Mingyu, who was motionless on the kang next to him and seemed to be sleeping, kept his eyes slightly open.
On the other side, Yue Feng returned to his home with the bullet box. He did not lose money on the two 'sales' today. Although he gave away a lot of meat, the bullets were hard currency.
Counting the box given by Guo Jianfeng and the half of the box from Wang Jianguo, there are hundreds of rounds at least. In this way, you will definitely not have to worry about bullets in a short period of time, even if you go up the mountain to give it to Uncle Zhao next time Bring three hundred rounds, and the remaining bullets will be enough to cause trouble this winter.
After returning home, Yue Feng put away all the bullets and put them on the top of the kang cupboard. When not hunting in the mountains, the gun and bullets must be separated. In case there is no one at home, he quietly carries it with him. If a friend comes to the house, becomes interested in guns, and then hurts someone, there will be a big problem.
As for the safety of his family, Yue Feng has never worried about it. There are four ferocious native hounds tied up in the yard. The four and a half-year-old cubs in the house are eating and drinking well after this period of time, and they are almost as tall as their shoulders. 60 years old, who dares to stroke the tiger's beard?
After arranging the bullets, Yue Feng went to the east room to say hello to the old man, and then got on the kang and lay down early. He had to stay up in the second half of the night and take a nap in the first half of the night, otherwise he would not be able to bear it tomorrow.
After sleeping from nine o'clock in the evening to one o'clock in the middle of the night, Yue Feng was woken up by his father in a daze.
Yue Feng was very tired from walking on mountain trails for two consecutive days, but his young body recovered quickly. After a few hours of rest, most of his energy had recovered.
Getting up to wash his face and refresh himself, Yue Feng picked up the little big eagle from his father's hand that had been idle for two days without hunting.
The night spent staying up as an eagle is boring, but Yue Feng doesn’t find it boring. The little eagle has completely loosened its fur on human hands, but Yue Feng turns his wrist every once in a while, or touches the eagle’s head and heels. Neck and other vital parts to ensure that the eagle does not fall asleep.
In this quiet night, Yue Feng thought about many things that had happened recently, such as the sick black bear that attacked people, the footprints of the Wild Boar King on the mountain that were as big as cow hooves, and the hot-tempered Uncle Zhao, etc.
In a daze, Yue Feng's thoughts drifted to Wang Xiaona again.
Since his rebirth, Yue Feng has tried his best to improve his life. He doesn't know if Wang Xiaona can like himself now.
Unconsciously, the outside of the window turned white. Yue Feng put on thick cotton clothes and went out of the house. He walked back and forth in circles in the yard with the little eagle on his back.
When it gets dark, it’s time for the little eagle to take off its shaft. It shakes its head several times and spits out the hair shaft in the crop.
Yue Feng bent down and picked up the hair shaft, which was still stained with a lot of mucus. After pinching it open, he carefully observed that the hair shaft was very fresh. Except for some moisture, it had no peculiar smell and no cyan or green digestive juices.
This shows that the eagle is in very good health. After breakfast, we can go for a walk outside to consolidate the experience of hunting in human hands.
At six o'clock in the morning, Xiao Tao and his three brothers came to the house on time to gather and went hunting in the mountains for two consecutive days. The game at the coal mine canteen was delayed for a day, so Xiao Tao and the others could not catch any rest today, so they had to go up the mountains to let go. Ying needs to stabilize the daily team income.
After breakfast, the four of them each put on their eagles and went out. Today, Yue Feng took the little eagle and went straight to the Black Coffin Ditch.
Yue Feng has already seen the ability of this little big eagle to catch rabbits, and there is nothing wrong with it in describing it as steady, accurate and ruthless.
But this ability to catch pheasants, I don’t know how it will perform in actual combat.
Black Coffin Valley has always been Yue Feng’s private area where eagles catch pheasants. Except for the occasional visit by him and Xiao Tao, it has been vacant most of the time, waiting for the density of the pheasant population to reach ecological niche restoration through natural migration. purpose.
Since the heavy snowfall, Yue Feng has only been to Black Coffin Valley once, and Xiao Tao has been there twice with his family’s iron-backed red eagle. Since then, he has never been there.
Coming here this time, Yue Feng was quite confident. The place had been idle for so long. In the past, after every hawk release, there would be soybeans or corn kernels scattered there. Now there must be a lot of pheasants.
Sure enough, a few hundred meters away from the Black Coffin Valley area, Yue Feng had already heard the sound of the big male pheasant clucking and flying.
Hearing the crow of the pheasant, the small eagle on his arm immediately entered a fighting state. A pair of sharp eagle eyes looked around, ready to take off and catch the slightest sign of trouble.
Yue Feng held the eagle steadily, held on to both sides, and strolled to the upstream position of the Black Coffin Ditch. Looking around, he saw a large area of white snow at the bottom of the ditch, and almost all the short grass was covered with snow. Covered with snow foam.
However, if you look carefully, above the ditches on both sides, many areas with shrubs and dwarf trees appear yellow or gray-black in color. These are the areas where pheasants spend the night and forage during the day. Various grass seeds or grain left over from the autumn harvest are the food for pheasants over the winter.
Yue Feng walked up slowly and saw at a glance the frozen pheasant cakes under the bushes.
Yes, if there are pheasants spending the night here, they will certainly be there during the day as well.
Thinking of this, Yue Feng started to drive, holding a thin pole in his left hand, walking a few steps and tapping it, looking for bushes that were not completely covered by snow and other places where pheasants could hide and feed. .
After walking less than thirty meters, suddenly, a flapping sound came from the ground twenty or thirty meters away, and a huge male pheasant took off from the snow like a helicopter. Fly out.
Seeing this, Yue Feng immediately let go of the two guns in his hand.
The little big eagle in the middle lowered its head, bent down, kicked its strong legs on the ground, flapped its wings and chased after it.
Yue Feng's judgment when he was herding rabbits was once again verified in actual combat. This little eagle flew very fast, even slightly faster than the iron-backed red eagle with its big arms, round waist and muscular muscles.
The large male pheasant that took off from the ground only flew less than 40 meters before being intercepted in the air by the small eagle chasing after him.
Yes, you read that right, it’s an air interception!
The flying posture of this small eagle catching pheasants is somewhat similar to that of a falcon. After catching up with the prey, it can obviously grab the prey with one talon and land directly to the ground to surrender and end the battle, but it does not catch it in this way.
With the absolute advantage in speed, he kicked the big rooster in the air. The big rooster was intercepted and attacked in flight, and a pile of chicken feathers suddenly scattered in the air.
Hitting the big rooster with one blow, the little eagle made a bend in mid-air, swooped down again, and pinched the big rooster's neck accurately.
The necks of birds are more fragile than mammals like rabbits. Yue Feng grabbed a handful of feathers from the pheasant after the eagle and started running forward. When the eagle swooped down and pinned the pheasant to the ground , Yue Feng had already run seven or eight meters.
Just like that, when Yue Feng panted and walked up to him, the pheasant under the talons of the little eagle had stopped moving. It was directly choked and suffocated by the vicious little eagle.
The whole pursuit and hunting process was still about being fast, accurate and ruthless, with no one alive under its claws. The claws of this little eagle were far more cunning than the big iron-backed red eagle at home.
Anyway, the pheasant was already dead, so Yue Feng was not in a hurry to change the food immediately. He squatted next to him and let the little eagle feather it for a while. After half a pull, the chicken feathers on his neck were all gone. Yue Feng Then he took out the leg plug, made a cut on the pheasant's neck, and let out the blood.
Seeing the blood, the little eagle became even more fierce. It tore the chicken skin from the pheasant's neck with big mouthfuls, and swallowed all the skin that was pulled off.
The position of the eagle's lower beak is the neck of the big rooster, not the thick meat of the breast, so Yue Feng allowed the big eagle to peck at it. After probably eating seven or eight mouthfuls of flesh and blood, Yue Feng slowly took it out of his satchel. Take out the meat rolls that are fed to the eagle.
After feeding three meat rolls in a row, Yue Feng felt that he was almost ready. He covered the talons of the little eagle with the cage sleeves. When the eagle loosened its talons, he picked up the pheasant and blocked the eagle's sight with his body. Stuffed into the satchel.
With a little meat skin and a few thin meat rolls, the little big eagle is far from full. This guy works quickly and consumes very little energy. He loosened his hair in just a few minutes. .
Yue Feng held the eagle in his hand and continued to drive his stick. He moved from the bottom of the ditch to the north side. Before he could reach the gentle slope on the north side, the second pheasant could not pass under his feet. It flew out again ten meters away.
This time it was a hen that was slightly smaller than half a size, and the little eagle chased after it again.
The second actual hunting was like a replica of the big rooster just caught. With the absolute advantage in flight speed, the little big eagle's hunting posture was quite simple and crude.
Catching up, he kicked the pheasant in mid-air and sent its feathers flying. Taking advantage of a problem with its flying posture and falling to the ground, the little eagle swooped down and grabbed the pheasant by its neck to subdue it.
The whole action was not unnecessary at all. When Yue Feng quickly caught up with him, the pheasant whose trachea was pinched began to open his mouth and breathe again.
After all, Yue Feng is a well-informed eagle handler. He has seen people flying around to catch prey, and he has also seen people smashing piles, but like a falcon attack that involves kicking and grabbing. This is the first time Yue Feng has seen an eagle that leaves no one alive.
This little eagle is slightly smaller, which was originally a disadvantage. However, due to its small size, the eagle's flying speed is faster, which turns it into an advantage. In addition, the current hunting method of kicking and grabbing directly to the vital point increases the efficiency of hunting. Super high, and for the Falcon itself, that's pretty labor-saving.
If the big iron-backed red eagle at home is a model of being strong and relying on physical fitness to kill prey, then this little big eagle is a top hunter who has developed its hunting skills to a very high level. Killer.
Such an eagle is used as a gift. If a knowledgeable person has seen the little big eagle working, he will definitely raise his thumbs and say something awesome.
Two chapters of 6,000 words, and there are still 4,000 words left in the afternoon!
(End of this chapter)