Birdwatching - 2124 🐦

🦉 The common chaffinch or simply the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

• fringilla (lat.) - finch; fi nco (Old German), fi nc (Old English)
• coelebs coelebs (lat.) - single, idle, unmarried

These famous forest singers arrive early in the spring, among the first. The forest is still filled with snow that has just begun to melt, and these birds are already there. The males find suitable nesting areas, occupy them and sing songs. However, if you try, you can see these birds even earlier, and they will be in a small flock in which they flew from wintering grounds, before separating. Once at the end of March I met two males, they were just flying past and stopped to rest, then flew away again.

Females arrive later than males. They look nondescript, pale tones, and the coloring is similar to that of a sparrow.
The majority of birds fly away in September, but this happens unnoticed, since in summer the birds are silent and secretive. However, there were two cases when I met these birds even in early November.