Nature continues to change the usual course of events. Migratory birds arrive in unusual time, but spring is still gaining strength. Most birds wintering in the warm regions have already appeared in our region. Birds are waiting for restless days – building nests, the appearance of chicks, caring for them.

“The starlings arrived and on the wings they brought spring” – is sung in a children’s song. Due to changes in climatic conditions this year, unusual behavior has occurred with the migratory birds.
Birds usually leave their native land when winter comes, and they return back in the spring, in March-May. But this year, on 22-23 March only Common buzzard and Eurasian skylark appeared in the reserve. Eurasian jay was very worried – not understanding why there are still no migratory friends, cracking and fussing about it, but hearing the buzzard’s cries, they began to imitate his voice and clearly cheered up.

All migrating birds follow a certain arrival schedule. Common chaffinch is a migratory bird, the so-called “near migrant”. He spends the winter in the countries of Europe, in the South of Russia, in the Caucasus and in the Crimea. In the snow-less winters, it may remain to winter in the middle belt. At the end of March and beginning of April, males come first from wintering grounds and wait for females for about a week, sing songs and choose areas for nesting sites. But this year the ladies did not give them time to prepare – they arrived simultaneously with the males.
The first precursors of the coming of spring are White wagtail, their singing can be heard with the first thawed snow. This little energetic bird, you can often watch floating on ice floes on the water, but this year the wagtail was noticed on April 2, before the ice drift.

On April 4 Common blackbird, Fieldfare, Song thrush, Mistle thrush arrived, as well as the biggest pigeon of our edges – Common wood pigeon.
In the forest, you could hear a two-syllable dull repetitive hooting: huhuu … huuhu … It’s Stock dove, it flies early when the first small thawed patches appear. The pairs form in winter or during migration. For nesting Stock dove choose natural cavities in trees or, more often, old hollows of the Black woodpecker.
Already in all singing Yellowhammer and Common reed bunting, and they were joined by the already arrived European robin. Eurasian magpie and Hooded crow started building nests, and Eurasian nuthatch, which themselves are not able to hollow out a hollow, occupy old nests of woodpeckers. Often, if the entrance to the hollow is too large, they, for the purpose of protection from predators, cover it with clay, sometimes leaving only a small hole.

On migration, Gray heron and ducks are seen: Common goldeneye, Northern pintail, Tufted duck. Northern fields appeared on the open fields.
The reserve forest somehow immediately filled with noise, homon, merry spring chirping. Finally, nature revived, with the arrival of birds, the forest became completely different: it spread its branches in a friendly manner to receive guests who arrived.