Tours in the winter woods

The trip should take a notebook or notepad with a pencil, a ticker with millimeter graduations for measuring trace, and very well, if you can take and binoculars. At each tour notes, except the date and weather conditions, as the natural environment: the nature and composition of vegetation (pine forest, aspen, old wood or young, if mixed, from which trees and which of them prevails), proximity to water, relief ( For example, a ravine), a state of snow cover. On the tour should be celebrated in the ability of all known bird, which can observe their behavior during the meeting, as well as the number of instances encountered. Measure and sketch the following as desirable, but we must remember that this will require a lot of time. Therefore it is better to do it, you probably know what the bird belongs to the trail. For example, you caught in the snow jay and then, when she flew, produce the study it left behind traces. In addition to trace, collect litter, nibble on some bumps and other traces of the birds. Found in a grove of vole, pinned on the barberry thorn, said that around here hosts a large shrike. Analysis of the litter makes it possible to judge the bird feed. To study the traces of black grouse, hazel grouse, capercaillie is very useful preliminary acquaintance with traces of a rooster, chicken and pigeon, which is easy to learn at home.