Birdwatching - 1829 🐦

🦉 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

These northern birds arrive in my region around the end of autumn, when the first frosts have already arrived. At these moments you can see a small number of birds. But when winter comes, these birds already fly en masse through forests and city parks and courtyards.

In huge, very noisy flocks, they raid fruit and berry trees, mainly rowan trees. They pick the berries and swallow them whole. And after lunch they try to climb higher to bask in the sun, if there is any of course. After resting, they continue on their way again.
And so on until about mid-May. In the spring, they also fly en masse back to the north.