Birdwatching - 1717 🐦

🦉 The Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

📚 Bombycilla bombux (Greek) silk, cilla (Latin) tail
📚 garrulus lat .: garrire to chatter, babble, chirp, garrulus chatty, chirping, noisy; ax prone to

Closer to winter, we should already expect the arrival of these birds. They fly from the far north to the south to survive the cold winter. In the forests during this harsh time, they feed on berries, swallowing them whole. Basically, these are rowan or viburnum berries.

You can meet them not only in forests, but also in city parks, but sometimes they fly past courtyards. They love to sit on the tallest tree in a huge flock and bask in the sun, unless of course the weather allows.
They fly away with the arrival of spring, also in a large flock. And during this flight they already form pairs