Winter birds near habitation

What is the inability to watch and see! There is no dispute: the vast majority of birds did fly away. But even the birds are well tolerated cold. Feathers and down - very warm clothes, a bird's blood is so hot that the birds are not afraid of cold. Another thing - hunger. Feed in the winter much more difficult than in summer. Still, about 50 species of birds remain with us the winter. Look around you. These brave men are not so difficult to notice. Among them are easiest to see those who can adapt himself to the neighborhood with housing rights. About a man there is always some kind of profit. Rubbish in landfills and dumps - prey for crows, jackdaws, magpies, sparrows. Near Gumen, stacks of straw, haystacks small granivorous birds search crumbling of grains and seeds. In the gardens, vegetable gardens, even on country roads - everywhere near the person has any food for the birds. And even in big cities, we see whole flocks of feathered visitors, who previously flew somewhere in other places. Most striking numerous noisy crows native - jackdaws and crows, on the outskirts of the beautiful, magpies, near the slaughterhouse - the black crows. And it must be right to say: all this preinteresnye birds, it is quite commendable that they do. For example, a crow and its close cousin - the jackdaw. Both are in many respects resemble each other, yet each has its own peculiarities. Raven's bigger and stronger than jackdaws. Summer and spring in the cities of crows and jackdaws were far fewer than in winter. Of the incident, flocks are sent to some quiet park overgrown with old trees and a cemetery or suburban woods and sit here at night. Bare branches of birch trees bend under the weight of these packs. Long galochy hear screaming and cawing crows, until finally, every nochevschik find a comfortable place. As darkness fell silent voices: a flock of sinking into light sleep. In late winter, this life is disrupted schooling. Already in the last third of February, and even more in the sunny thaws of March awakened family instincts. Swarms disintegrate into pairs. In late March, when the fields are displayed thawed patches, often you can see the jackdaw, which was found dragging a stick for the future of the nest or elsewhere on the market settles back quietly slumbering horses to nadergat of her skin molting winter coat. For future chicks just fits this light and warm bedding. Crows make their nests, where necessary: ??in attics, eaves high towers, under Zastrekha and even inside the chimneys, and even in the hollows of old trees. Part of the birds scatter in suburban groves and parks. As for crows, almost all of them fly very far from the city to twist their nests in secluded places. Not everyone knows that much of the crows that live in the winter of the middle band, arrives here with the onset of cold weather from the north. In our northern forest belt on the parallel Archangel crow is known only in the summer. In the winter it disappears: there is a migratory bird. Move south in winter and jackdaws. It would be interesting to verify the observation well, indicating that the jackdaws couples are formed for life, and from year to year, this jack is the same couple. You can check this by ringing a few pairs of birds caught in the nest.