I once got a little egret, which my father accidentally found on a construction site and brought home. When I came to my house, the little egret was not very good at flying.
The little egret has a strange and beautiful appearance. Its fluffy coat is white and white, without any noise. The long neck can stretch freely. Below a pair of watery eyes is a flat, long and sharp mouth. Surprisingly, there are two small holes in its mouth, which is probably its nose! Its legs are long and thin, and its claws are sharp, as if it can pierce many things.
The cry of the little egret is similar to that of a duck, and it quacks and sometimes coos. Maybe it's because we tied a rope to his feet. He seems to feel very unhappy. Every time he lifts his feet, he has to shake them and look around to make sure there is no danger around him before he is willing to put down his feet.
at the beginning of breeding, the food of the little egret gave us a headache. On the first day, we didn't know what it liked at all. We just poured millet and water into the basin. But when I got up the next morning, I found that it didn't eat the millet and water in the basin at all. I poured some more millet into the basin, thinking that it would naturally eat when it was hungry. When I came home from school that day, I couldn't wait to visit the little egret, only to find that there was no shortage of millet in the basin. You can't eat anything! Looking at the little egret granules, I was in a hurry, so I immediately turned on the computer to look up the information. Only after this investigation did I know that the egret only loves eat small fish, shrimps and the like, so it's no wonder that it doesn't eat the food in the basin at all! This can not beat me, I immediately picked up the net bag and ran to the small river in the community to catch fish. In a short time, I caught twenty or thirty small fish, and quickly picked up the "delicious food" in the washbasin and invited the little egret to eat. The little egret, like a hungry child, wolfed down at once. The little egret's mouth is really big enough. It can eat four or five small fish in one bite, as if it had been swallowed without being chewed. In a blink of an eye, it ate up the small fish I caught. I was very happy to see the little egret satisfied.
I keep the little egret on the balcony. At first, it was quite well behaved, but it didn't take long for it to be naughty. Sometimes it practices jumping in the flowerpot, and the short flowerpot obviously can't stop it. Sometimes it stands on the iron branch to practice static work, and the iron tree is bent. Sometimes it even steps on those flowers and drops petals ... When we go to the balcony, the little egret often looks up at other places contemptuously, ignoring our existence. Or continue to play its games and treat us like air. Look at its small appearance, it's hard not to like it!
Ever since the little egret came to my house, the first thing I do when I get up every morning is to run to the balcony to see if the little egret is healthy and whether it has enough food ... With the careful care of our family, the little egret's coat color is brighter and its legs and feet seem stronger.
While I was intoxicated with it, one day, my mother whispered in my ear, "Birds are our friends, so we should cherish them." After listening to my mother's words, I suddenly understood: although I keep the egret at home and give it a good meal and a good place to live, this is not the life it really wants. Thinking of this, I quickly said to my mother, "Mom, let's set the little egret free!" " Mom kept saying yes. So, with the help of my mother, I took the little egret to the grass in the community and carefully untied the rope tied to the little egret's foot. The little egret flapped its wings and flew with a whoosh. I am reluctant to follow its shadow, watching it gradually become smaller, become a small white spot, and finally disappear into the boundless sky ...
My eyes have been staring at the direction where the little egret is going away for a long time, and I silently pray in my heart: fly, dear little egret, in the embrace of nature, you can definitely live better ...