Birdwatching - 1992 🐦

🦉 The white wagtail (Motacilla alba)

• Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name)
• alba (lat.) white

These graceful, slender, slender birds are quite common. They can easily be found on the streets, quickly running along sidewalks and courtyards. For some reason, these birds gravitate towards water and human habitation. Nests are built in a variety of places; they can be under snags, under tree roots, in old bird hollows. in forest houses of hunters and fishermen, in ventilation. There is a school in my yard, and wagtails live under the roof of this school.

They arrive in early spring, when the snow is actively melting. In the old days these birds were called "ice breakers". After all, they appeared just when there was ice drift, and the birds walked on the ice floes and wag their tails, as if breaking the ice.
The last photo represents just that. Horse of April, wagtail on the river bank on an ice floe.