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In almost any school textbook, where they describe ways of orientation and determination of cardinal points, there is a statement that you can find the north-south direction by tree crowns or annual rings on cut stumps. This is a dangerous delusion, but according to some natural phenomena, you can still roughly orient yourself in the cardinal points.

Near large stones, stumps, buildings, snow thaws faster on the south side, which is more strongly illuminated by the sun. And vice versa, in recesses, ravines, hollows, pits, etc. it thaws faster on the north side, because the southern edges of the depressions do not receive direct sunlight. The same thawing can be observed even in the footprints of humans and animals left in the snow.

On the southern slopes of the mountains, thawed patches form faster than on the northern ones, the snow mass is as if ruffled, forms a kind of bristle, separated by thawed patches, or spikes elongated to the south. The steeper the slopes, the faster the formation of thawed patches.

At the northern edge of the forest, the soil is released from under the snow 10-15 days later than at the southern one. In March - April, holes elongated to the south are formed around the trunks of free-standing trees, stumps and pillars in the snow.

It is known that the resin protrudes more on the southern half of the trunk of a coniferous tree. The bark of birch and pine on the north side is darker than on the south, and tree trunks, stones, rock ledges are densely covered with moss and lichens.

Some animals, eg. squirrels build their dwelling, taking into account the prevailing wind direction. Ants make their homes almost all south of the nearest trees, stumps and bushes. The southern side of the anthill is flatter than the northern one. Steppe bees build their dwellings on the south side.

The Syrian nuthatch makes its nest on a rock wall that always faces east. Three-toed gulls or Maevkas nest on the rocks in numerous flocks, and their nests are always located on the western and northwestern shores of the islands, because. facing south, southeast. Flocks of migratory birds fly mainly in a northerly direction in spring, and south in autumn.

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