Birdwatching - 1893 🐦

🦉 The Eurasian wryneck or northern wryneck (Jynx torquilla)

• Jynx iynx, iyngis (Greek, Lat.) wryneck ; Iynga in ancient Greek. mythology, a beautiful nymph, the daughter of the god of the forest Pan and the nymph Echo, who possessed the magic of a love spell, but for this Hera, the wife of Zeus, turned her into a nondescript wryneck.
• torquilla torquere (lat.) to twist, bend, turn (name - for the snake twisting of the neck and head in a hollow in danger)

This strange species of woodpecker appears in the forests of my city around the beginning of May. There are birdhouses in the old cemetery through which the path to the forest lies. And these birds sometimes inhabit these birdhouses.

But most often these birds occupy old abandoned hollows of other birds.
And one day I observed an interesting incident. A little chipmunk was climbing up a tree. And somewhere at the top there was just the hollow of a wryneck.

The bird flew around and attacked the rodent. Chipmunk was forced to retreat and get down to the ground.