Birdwatching - 1612 🐦

🦉 The spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)

📚 Muscicapa lat .: musca fly, capere to catch
📚 striata (lat.) streaky, striped, speckled

I met this unremarkable bird in the old cemetery. Moreover, I met her here for the first time. Mostly pied flycatchers live here.
In these photos you can see her hunting process. The bird sits on an open perch in the form of a grave fence, and looks out for insects.

Seeing a flying insect, the bird sets off in pursuit of it and catches it right in the air. And then again returns to her original place, to an open perch.
In general, I rarely meet this bird. But most often I see them in a coniferous forest far outside the city.