Wildlife reserve ”Swamp Ozernoe” description and photos - Russia - Leningrad region: Vyborgsky district (Topic)

Wildlife reserve "Swamp Ozernoe" description and photos - Russia - Leningrad region: Vyborgsky district. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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In the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region there is a state reserve "Swamp Ozernoe" - a large swamp massif and nearby lakes and watersheds.

The swamp was formed on the site of the former these places are the remnant lake, which is overgrown. Small lakes remain from the former lake massif: Chernushka, Shchukino, Rybachye and several very small lakes and water "ends". The lakes of the reserve are deep enough. So, in Shchukino, the depth is about 12 m, in Rybachye - about 9 m. The layer of bog peat is no more than one and a half meters. Under the peat layer there are fine and fine-grained sand, clayey bluish-gray soils.

The swamp is surrounded by kama hills. They are located chaotically, the isometric shape of the slopes prevails. The length and diameter of the hills at the bottom are not less than 70 and not more than 800 meters. Elongated hills from 50 to 450 m. Between the hills there are shallow depressions and depressions, sometimes swampy.

The forest part of the reserve is mostly coniferous. Pines prevail. In the north and north-west of the reserve, well-drained soils prevail, on which green moss pine forests grow, reaching 120 meters in height, thickets of lingonberry and heather. The largest pine diameter in these places is 38 cm, which is explained by the excellent microclimate for conifers. In the forest canopy, there are rowan and birch.

The western border of the Ozernoye bog and reclamation channels have created favorable conditions for the growth of a sphagnum-blueberry-cotton grass pine forest, in which many cloudberries ripen annually. In a swamp, next to Lake Rybachy, on the mineral island, in the pine forest, you can find spruce and birch trees. The pines growing in the reserve are rightfully considered the elders. The age of some trees reaches 120 years.

In the south of the reserve, in the forest cover: both in the stand, in the main part, and in the undergrowth, conifers prevail. On the southeastern side of Lake Rybachye, tall-stemmed pines, reaching 25 m, and mountain ash, mainly grow. Aspen and spruce can be seen in the lower part of the stand. Most of the pines here are between 110 and 120 years old.

Aquatic vegetation is pretty simple. In Rybachye grow bulbs, Dortmann's lobelia, lacustrine grass, and the last two species are listed in the Red Book.

In the past, they tried to drain it more than once in the territory of the current reserve, reclamation work was carried out here, from which there were ditches in the north-west and north of the bog massif and an artificial channel from Rybachy to Shchukino. Human intervention can be seen in the presence of freestanding tall birches that grow along ditches, open peat areas, this can be seen in the change in the width of the annual rings in the trunks of bog pines.

In the northern part of Lake Rybachye there are well-equipped places for recreation.

In the Ozernoye Swamp nature reserve, five species of plants from the category of vascular plants, which are included in the Red Book, grow: spring lumbago, Dortmann's lobelia, lacustrine mushroom, turfy downhill, meadow lumbago.

During spring and autumn migrations, waterfowl, wading birds, passerines stop on the territory of the bog massif. Since there are no suitable biotopes on the water, then large concentrations of waterfowl in the reserve are not observed. On Lake Rybachye, flocks of whooper swans can be seen almost every spring. In summer and autumn, migrating flocks of gulls, lapwings, blackies, curlews come here to rest for feeding and rest. On the waters of the Rybachye and Shchukino lakes, gogols are frequent guests.

On the territory of the Ozernoye Swamp nature reserve, you can find bird species listed in the Red Book: whirligig, curlews, whooper swan, clintuch, gray shrike. There are also species of black grouse and birds of prey. But due to the frequent visits of people to these places, the avifauna is under heavy pressure, which is the reason for the low population of these birds here.

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