Spring arrival of birds

When the snow becomes even smaller, lapwings fly on wet swampy lowlands and bask in the warm rays of the April near numerous spring puddles. This is where they celebrate their spring courtship. Games open Aerobatics males, which then take off at 20 meters above the ground, then suddenly fall down, tumble on the fly and make the most intricate twists. Loud cries of lapwings - Tiu-vie! Tiu-vie! Tiu-vie! - Far and wide over the fields. In early April, showing advanced lone gulls and gray herons. But the passage of their gross begins after the icing, as the river cleared of ice. Usually this happens near Moscow in the second half of April. Very early, even before the break-up, showing progressive duck flocks. With characteristic whistling wings flew to the coastal dried reeds mallards - the closest relatives of our domestic ducks. Arrives a little teal svistunok appear and other species of ducks. Some of them returned to their nests last year, while others, flying north, stay with us only temporarily, for feeding. If the river had not yet opened, the ducks are searching for rapid streams, rinse in springtime puddles, and sit under the waterfalls at the mill dam, near the noisy locks, looking out for the ice, never freezing river rapids. Bad accounts that best messengers of spring, when there comes the return of cold weather - a cold north wind blows, will play a blizzard and powder snow had thawed patches appeared. Had come up the birds suffer when severe famine. Anxiously they fly hither and thither, finding himself no shelter, no food. It's good that these returns are rarely long winter. In the early or mid-April fly wild pigeons - vityutni. Falcons back and high above the forest give birth to their aerial courtship. Flies and some of the smaller songbirds birds. Very early in April, returned to the white wagtail. Often, they come back when there only seemed to thaw holes. Not for nothing about the bird say it "breaks the ice." In the spring of 1937 white wagtail in the forest reserve of the Kalinin region was seen on March 29, ten days after the arrival of larks and long before the opening of a local river. Winter birds. Animated birds become sedentary. They wake up the mighty instinct of reproduction. Habits of birds, her life changed.