Birds in the spring

Following the opening of the rivers fly to the north, almost all aquatic birds: wild ducks, geese, loons, etc. Along with them or immediately after them flying birds "who take fish from the raid, the different types of gulls, such as ordinary Gull and Gull bluish. Their close relatives - terns arrive only in May. With loud cries flying phalanx of cranes, built in the marching order. They fly at such a height that can be a good look at the shape of birds in flight, the neck stretched forward (in contrast to herons, that bent his neck and his head attracted to the body) and pulled back his long legs. In overcast conditions on the migration of cranes can be guessed from their "kurlykapyo" wafting from a gray cloudy sky. It is interesting to observe how changes at times marching slings of cranes, when they suddenly begin to rebuild on the fly, changing best situated "at the forefront, and aligning the hand, if they are unequal in the number of birds. Immediately after the break-up, when all around has a lot of snow flies bittern. The first time she is hiding among bushes or thickets of dry reeds and very silent. When will fall hollow water, bittern moved to their breeding places: the swampy thicket, a thin strand of lakes and river lowlands. Here, the male bittern is taken for their spring songs, and now that the lake bittern live, you learn from a distance. Cry of the male bittern - a loud roar that ignorant take him for a beast. He recalls a distant muffled roar of a bull and a bittern in the Ukraine known under the name "bull" (bull). Looks like the bump and to the hollow sound, which is obtained if the bass shouting into a barrel at the bottom of which there is little water. Different observers in different ways explain the origin of the roar. It is known that before screaming bittern is gaining in its beak water, then throws back his head, as if swallowing it, and then lowered to the water bill, issue a loud roar. It is possible that in this case has gained in importance beak water, and maybe the sound is thanks to the power of being kicked out of breath of air. In the thickets of reed, cane, or in the bush female builds on a hummock, or directly to the ground a rough nest. Sometimes, when the big water, it builds a floating nest, which later settles to the ground. At the latitude of Moscow bittern already in mid-May to lay eggs. Page 1 of 5 | Next page