The night before, I wished we didn’t have to wake up and watch birds in such an early time, especially with an empty stomach; however, after our “sneaky” adventure starts, I couldn’t help but got enchanted by the amazing bird world. We not only did bird-watching, but also got a chance to see how marking birds an doing research on birds in the wild would be like. Thanks to (?!....well, at least in my prospective) the mist net, we got to see a real field-data collecting on the scene.
We stayed at Meifeng farm, where I love and enjoyed very much, for the whole day. The schedule is as below: bird watching, a guided tour in Meifeng farm, a lecture on composing, sugar-beet juice making, and finally an introduction on moth.
We got a baby White-tailed Robin; however, it was not the research’s aim, so after taking photos of it, we let it go.
Their aim was Taiwan Yuhina, and we were just too lucky that they just caught two Taiwan Yuhinas; therefore able to demonstrate the data-collecting process.
It was worth noted that one of them, the one with a green-white mark was incubating, since we could see that they didn’t have any feathers on their stomach.
Later on, after a brief introduction, we got to see them measured. Then, the most excited part came: the injection of a chip. Since the color band on their foot is hard to observe when they are incubating, so the chip will help identifying who they are; therefore, observe their cooperative breeding behavior.
After bird watching, we went on a tour guide around the farm. The most impressive thing is the peach orchard. Since freshman year, our teachers kept showing us pictures of the beauty when peach trees are in full bloom. Therefore, to me, this was a precious experience to see the place with my own eyes. Noted that they were all Y-shaped pruning.
In the afternoon, we had a lecture from Mr.劉力學 on table waste composing, which I totally enjoyed it very very much. He gave me a different thought that things could possibly be different: the waste could be reused, be turned in to valuable qualities. By the way, it totally made sense that as long as nutrients are abundant, plants are able to start their pest-resistance system, which I think it’s a really cool mechanism (attacked-->spreading perfume-->poisonous sweet for specific pests). And we really should think it over carefully: let the nature be nature.
Sugar-beets harvesting and juice making.
Let Meifeng’s maze end this day of amazement!
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