Birdwatching - 1871 🐦

🦉 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

A very noisy flock of these birds visited the forest in mid-October. As autumn approaches, they fly from the north in search of food. And it’s very funny to watch how these birds awkwardly somersault in order to reach the berry.

Basically, you can only see them in the upper tiers of the forest. Where they either feed or climb higher to bask in the sun. But very rarely they can be seen on the ground. They mostly go down to water sources to drink.