A winter home for migrating birds in Yanqing county

The Wild Duck Lake National Wetland Park. Photo provided to China Daily

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You can have a bite of different fish from the lake at the park's canteen, such as fish head, fish soup, roasted fish, and braised fish in soy sauce. There are also local farm dishes including roasted potatoes, steamed pumpkins and handmade noodles. Or, you can have a delicious picnic in the abandoned wooden boats besides the lake.

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You can rent a bicycle, tricycle or a tandem bicycle at the gate to cycle on the paths lined with golden ginkgo, to exercise and relax yourself a bit.

If you're lucky, you will see birds fly by and disappear into the reed marshes.

For bird-watchers, autumn is the best time to visit the lake. You will see different kinds of birds take perch or go foraging such as egrets, tufted ducks and wrens.

When you stroll on the wooden footpath on the lake, you will come across groups of wild ducks and several swans swimming leisurely.

You can feed them with bread or buy some bird food from the nearby shop.

The ducks will cluster around you and quack happily as you feed them bread crumbs.

In spring, you can see many wild ducks, wild gooses and swans swim in the lake to celebrate the end of the cold winter.

In summer, you can come to the lake to escape the heat, view pretty lotus flowers, and look for four-leave clovers in the vast clover fields.

The wetland is a winter home to many migrating birds including whooper swans and grey cranes.

These birds make the lake more lively and attractive.