Birdwatching - 1858 🐦

🦉 The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

• Alcedo alcedinis, alcyon, or halcedo, halcedinis (lat.) kingfisher; word "hals" in ancient Greek language meant "sea", along with the word thalassa. According to ancient Greek mythology Alcyone (Alcyone), the daughter of the wind god Eol, was the wife of Keix, who drowned due to the wrath of the gods. Alcyone, out of grief, threw herself into the sea, and also died. The gods had mercy and turned the spouses into kingfishers. Looking for her husband, Alcyone calls all the time “Keix! Keix!" and dives, trying to find him in the sea. Alcyone days - two weeks of calm weather around the day winter solstice. During these days, Eol pacified the winds so that Alcyone, in the form of a kingfisher, could hatch chicks in her nest floating on the waves.
• atthis (ancient Greek mythology) Attis, a divine youth of extraordinary beauty

Despite the fact that I constantly meet these from year to year, in the same place, I am always happy when I see them.
After May 10, I happily go to the ravine in which the spring flows to meet these birds. And there is always a male and a female in this place. The female is always here, and the male fishes nearby on the river to court the female.

I go down and hide in the bushes, of which there are very few, and wait. If the birds are not visible or heard, I turn on their sounds on the phone, and one of these guys quickly rushes past me and sits on a branch.