Embracing the Fork-tailed Sunbird in Tai Po Kau
On the Sunday February 26th the Crested Bulbul Elementary Bird Watching course went to Tai Po Kau for practice. The instructors tutors have given us excessive warning on the difficulty of locating birds in the woodland. This proofs to be a fair statement. When the tutors cried out loud for velvet-fronted nuthatch, I only saw irregular patterns of bark.
Then we walked across a cluster of Ivory Coral trees before hitting the end of the coloured walks. Suddenly a small bird hidden among the ivory-shaped flowers came out and unveiled to us its glossy greenish blue head red cheeks and green upper-parts. What a magnificent Fork-tailed Sunbird.
While most of the woodland inhabitants would mock the elementary bird watchers attempts by acting camouflage in the forest, the Fork-tailed Sunbird gives us a warm welcome by displaying its decurved bill and leading us into the fascinating world of bird watching.
在二月二十六日的星期天雀躍薈觀鳥基礎班到大埔滘學習觀鳥,導師助教們已一早提點在林區尋找雀鳥的困難,他們並沒有跨大其詞,當助教大喊找到絨額鳾時,我只看到樹皮上不規則的圖案。
在來到四條步行徑終點前我們走過一堆象牙樹旁,突然一隻小鳥從象牙花裡轉出來,給我們看到湖水藍色帶金屬光澤的頭,紅色的臉頰和綠色的背部,多漂亮的叉尾太陽鳥啊。
當大部分林區雀鳥會自跨身上具有保護色、躲藏在樹林裡對我們初級觀鳥者的望遠鏡不屑一顧,而叉尾太陽鳥演示它微下彎的嘴,給我們莫大信心走進彩色繽紛的觀鳥世界。
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