There are many tall trees in front of my house. Every year, when magpies fly from the south in the warm and cold season, there will always be a loving magpie couple who choose to nest and breed here.
Every morning, just before dawn, magpies start to "sing" to work. The couple took twigs as thick as chopsticks and more than a foot long from a distance and moved them to the nesting tree again and again, taking many breaks on the way back and forth.
Magpies weigh only that much. It flies with a branch in its mouth, and its wings use much more force than usual. After moving the branches to the big tree, carefully put them on the branches, then stick the branches together with saliva, and fill the inner wall of the bird's nest with mud, dry thatch and leaves.
The bigger the new nest is built, the longer the branches need to be, and the more difficult it is to build a nest. It is often seen that the branches of magpies flying not far from Wan Li are knocked off by other branches on big trees. At this time, they will dive down to pick up branches, or try their best to keep their balance and not let the branches in their mouths fall.
The couple didn't call it a day until sunset.
2. I get up at 7 o'clock every morning, and when I open the curtain, I can see a pair of magpies coming to the Bird's Nest early, lifting branches for a while and being busy for a while. At noon, I also rested. Gai Lou started again at two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was busy until almost sunset. I didn't see my master resting on the nest at night, so I found a temporary place to rest.
Magpie's nesting project is not slow, and it will be half finished in a week or so. In the process of nesting, I carefully observed that the magpie first built the inner nest, lifted the mud to touch it, and specially embedded some soft branches with leaves in the original tree to decorate it.
When the middle diameter of the nest is large, the corresponding branches are also long, and the lifted branches sometimes need another help. The two magpies cooperate quite tacitly, and the branches that are not put away sometimes fall off. The branches are lifted separately, and the longer branches should be balanced, and the magpies hold them well. The branches that magpies choose to nest are all dry, and the thickness is similar.