The bird manages to lead the snake into tying itself into a knot, but the chick takes shelter in a hornet's nest.

The parents rescue it from the angry hornets, and the film ends with the father bird spanking the chick.

Workmanship is the height of color cartoon art, and the idea in back of the action is both clever and highly amusing.

It shows birds nesting in the spring, with the mother eventually hatching a trio of youngsters, who are then taught to sing, fly, etc.

[1] Prior to that, the featurette also appeared on the Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition: Silly Symphonies VHS in the 1980s.