Imported Birds

I know china has lots of imported goods for sale in suzhou now but i’m kinda wondering if they have started imported other things that shouldn’t be imported. today when me and sammi were biking around Jin Ji Hu while we where on east side near the new houses, yes houses not apartments. we saw a bird on the path it was a mid size bird. i look at the bird and see a large pointed bill and a pointed crest on its head. i said to sammi ” thats a fucking woodpecker” she told me that she had never seen that type of bird before not even in a book or a photo of it. i recognised the bird from my mothers book on birds of north america i’m not sure what the birds name is though. at first i thought it was someones illegal pet that had escaped but then we saw another one. we started biking down the path slowly suddenly i heard a CAW CAW CAW and looked up. it was a black and white Magpie i know the magpie is not a chinese bird. me and sammi were then very curious about where all these birds were coming from so we walked towards a bunch of trees near the canal near the houses. in the bamboo trees you could see thousands of birds most of them common chinese birds but some of them you could tell were not native. in suzhou you are lucky if you see more than one small bird in the sky in a day. but out here there are thousands. i start walking in this field of grass and bushes behind the housing complex suddenly a Pheasant or a large Grouse takes off from right next to us i nearly shit my pants.

i give up walking in the grass and head back to the path on the way i look up into the tree and see a huge nest i’m wondering which bird that belongs to. next weekend i will probably go back there with a better camera and try identify these birds and i also want to find out where they came from. me and sammi saw about 8 different species of bird that should not be in china. i knew 4 of them i want to find out the rest.

if china is now importing birds to make SIP more special i’m a little worried  soon after the birds over populate we will have another of Chairman Mao’s great sparrow hunt’s

if anyone has a good camera  with a strong Zoom let me know maybe we can all go next weekend and find the birds.

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