Birdwatching - 2027 🐦

🦉 The common redpoll or mealy redpoll (Acanthis flammea)

• Acanthis in ancient Greek. mythology daughter of Autonous and sister Acanthus; when Acanthis sobbed over the murdered Acanthus, the gods turned her into a bird.
• flammea lat.: flamma flame, fire, fiery color flammeus

These northern visitors appear in the forests of my region around the end of October, and no, it is not dependent on weather conditions. Birds seem to have a schedule that they follow. As an example, usually at the end of October it is already cold, there may already be snow, or it may fall and then melt. And last year at the end of October it was abnormally warm, even butterflies were flying in the forest at this time (global warming hmm?). And these northern birds always appear in the forests at this time.

They fly in large flocks and raid birch trees. where to gut catkins to eat their seeds.
In addition, they eat wormwood, but less often. Birds are very easy to photograph, especially if you turn on their voices on your phone, they instantly fly in to inquire about what is happening.
They fly back to the north quite early, but a couple of years ago there was an incident when I met a pair of these birds in the forest in early May.