Hiya! So this pretty average Silly Symphony naturally features birds of various kinds as they glide, swoop, peck and strut their feathered stuff around a lake and through the trees to a merry music theme, and all is happy until a fearsome bird of prey snatches one of the chicken chicks, of which they must all swiftly work together to rescue before it's too late! The first part of the short is very simple and routine stuff with birds doing bird things to a repeating musical beat that has a nice rhythm and has a kind of a chorus with a bird chirping three times, all cute but nothing special, but it does pick up and get better in the second half when all the birds are swarming and dive bombing the mean hawk who was only out for a bite to eat! I thought the animation of that scene was the best in the short, it was very fluid and fast moving, remarkably similar to how a real large flock of birds look when they're way up in the sky. It did have a strong finish but that wasn't enough to make this short good for me. These earlier Silly Symphonies are basically all the same, a group of whatever are happy and then a menace of some sort appears that they gotta overcome and then they're happy again, not a bad recipe at all for the impressionable young minds of yesteryear but in my opinion in retrospect the Symphonies like these only really serve to remind you of everything they did so much better just a few years later on with shorts like The Ugly Duckling, and Birds in the Spring to name a few similar. To me a big part of the enjoyment of this series is seeing the craft of the animation slowly evolve and grow as you progress through it. This one's okay but it's nothing too great and it's definitely no gem of the series, the music verges on repetitive and the birds are a bit too cartoony, they hadn't got the hang of them yet. Yet another enjoyable but uninspired mere stepping stone of a Symphony on the path to the true greatness that this wonderful series of animations had to offer, fly free you precious little Symphony! X