Birdwatching - 1930 🐦

🦉 The Eurasian nuthatch or wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea)

• Sitta sittē (Greek) mentioned by Aristotle and other ancient Greek. by the authors of the bird, something similar to the woodpecker
• europaea (lat.) European

Spring is in full swing and I love watching the mating rituals of birds. I saw a pair of nuthatches in an old cemetery. The first and last photos were of a female. Yes, sexual dimorphism in these birds is not pronounced, but from their behavior I realized that it was a female, since she was sitting on a branch and quickly fluttering her wings, posing as a fledgling. In this way, the females test the male to see how he is able to feed his children.

I didn’t wait for the male or bother them, I moved on. Meanwhile, in the forest I heard the songs of nuthatches. In general, they start singing early, as soon as they barely feel the warming, around the end or maybe in the middle of March.