Birdwatching - 1723 🐦

🦉 The Eurasian treecreeper or common treecreeper (Certhia familiaris

📚 Certhia (Greek): kerthios - a small bird crawling through the trees, mentioned by Aristotle
📚 familiaris (lat.): common, easily recognizable

This nimble bird is not so easy to photograph. And it's not that she's nimble and constantly on the move. It's easy to see and hear. Passing through the forest between the trees, the eye always clings to any movement. But the fact is that this bird categorically refuses to be photographed!

The very movement of the bird along the tree trunk is spiral, so you can wait for the moment when this baby appears from behind the tree, but at the same time you need to hide well behind the tree yourself. Because if a bird sees you, then it will hide in the shadows in every possible way and make your photos as low-quality as possible. It's jokingly called the "Treecreeper Paradox".