Birds on the eve of the summer

Try to approach crake, listening to his screams. Very soon you will begin to wonder how hard it is to see near or far from you crake. It seems that he is somewhere nearby, and a minute later his screams are heard faintly from afar. This is because crake cries, turning in different directions, and constantly running from place to place. When the rise of grain in the fields with them are starting to be heard "quail fight." Quail shouted, calling for a female, and the cries of his pass various words like: "bedtime", "pod-weed," as anyone can hear. Quail females continue to call and when they sit down na eggs laid by a simple hole. They begin to die down until July, since the time when the young hatch. In warm years it happens in June or the first half of July. Later the same masonry caught in August. In May, sitting on the eggs of quail, hen, grouse and grouse, some gluharki and hen even with his first decade. Most songbirds have already platted their nests, lay eggs, while females have begun to hatch, whereas males seek out food for her friends and sing silent, sitting somewhere nearby on a tree branch. To list of birds that hatch their eggs in this period of spring, there is no need: it was necessary to call almost all of our birds. In early June, begin to hatch chicks. Here are a motley hen brought in a remote woods their numerous offspring. Near it is sometimes possible to count up to sixteen little fuzz-covered chickens. With a caution, as hen-hen, she leads them along the forest undergrowth, raking strong legs forest soil, hard-smelling rotting last year's leaves. Derived chicks have many birds of prey in their large nests, roughly composed of thick dry branches on tall trees. By mid-nyunya in starlings, the young are already flying. Of small birds feeding in the nests down-covered chicks. To bring up by them, the birds consume countless insects. Nestlings grow quickly and have an enviable appetite. At this time catching insects, even those birds that at other times feed exclusively seeds and plant food in general.