Birds and the rest of game

	For lovers of nature Zawady Oleckie is a paradise! I do not keep in secret that we do not like hunters, we prefer people who hunt for beautiful photos. You can take them in Borecka Primeval Forest, at numerous lakes especially those with the overgrown waterline or those, which are hidden in a forest and also on the local wide fields. You can also take photos staying in our backyard. Besides the dangerously barking dogs, it happens that behind the fence cranes walk, deer graze, foxes, raccoon dogs and other marten animals run, hares jump and in the evening wild boars come for food, at night he-goat barks, and harts bellow on a rutting ground… At dawn and dusk, especially in a river-valley, those pictures are standard. If you are lucky, you can see a cream-color, teddy nestling of a crane, and an elk in a forest, wet thicket.
	You can waylay beavers, but to see them is almost impossible, but their works are very visible. There are aurochs in the deeper forest and wolves in the surrounding, but they are hidden as always. May is the dreamt month for ornithologists. Hoopoes coming for food to our garden, nightingales do not let us sleep… the movement in the birds’ business decreases in the summer, but there is always a reason for using a field-glass. The scream of flying cranes above our barn is the unchangeable element of the day, among numerous storks it is worth to see the blacks and different color beasts of prey flying above a field or lake. While swimming you can see a kingfisher looking out from branches a prey.
	Sometimes a stray bird, which flew out from a nest too early, goes into our hands and later into a forester’s hands, who rears it in a poultry-house. Later we all together let the bird, which is ready to live, fly away. But the bird doesn’t fly round above us as in American films. Up to the present rescued birds: buzzard and tawny owl. Have flown to the nearest tree and have waited to the moment of becoming hungry. Right- why should they fly in vain. Lovers of birds and generally nature we invite and Robert, who is a graduate of Faculty of Forestry (at the Warsaw Agricultural University) and ornithologist-passionate, can advice and teach. The list of the birds, which he saw in our farmyard, would be an encouragement: White-tailed eagle Marsh harrier White stork Black stork Great tit Sand martin Whitethroat Garganey Lapwing Great white egret Heron Redpoll Siskin Corncrake Song thrush Hoopoe Swallow Black woodpecker Great spotted woodpecker Grey-headed woodpecker Green woodpecker Lesser spotted woodpecker Scarled grosbeak Greenfinch Rook Goldeneye Red-backed shrike Grey lag goose Bean goose Bullfinch Goshawk Wood pigeon Hazel hen Waxwing Swift Black kite Kite Jackdaw Hobby Black redstart Cormorant Blackbird Nuthatch Wryneck Sparrow hawk Raven Mallard Common snipe Cuckoo Curlew Partridge Fieldfare Mute swan Marsh warbler Coot Linnet Tree sparrow Common gull Black-headed gull Goldcrest Buzzard House-martin Lesser spotted eagle Ortolan bunting Tree creeper Great crested grebe Willow warbler Lesser whitethroat Chiffchaff Redstart White wagtail Barn owl Whinchat Barred warbler Dunnock Reed bunting Honey buzzard Tawny owl Long-tailed tit Robin Common tern Osprey Collared turtle dove Willow tit Blue tit Marsh tit Sky lark Thrush nightingale Long-eared owl Jay Magpie Great grey shrike Wren Goldfinch Starling Tree pipit Meadow pipit Great reed warbler Reed warbler Yellowhammer Golden oriole Hooded crow House sparrow Icterine warbler Chaffinch Brambling Kingfisher Crane

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