Thank you dear @nelinoeva for the competition. You can find the announcement and rules here. And the theme of this week was -Free Theme. I decided to show the birds that I often see while walking along

These cute, furry rodents have become a favorite among visitors to the city park in my city. Someone even goes to this place especially for them to treat them with nuts from their hands. Squirrels have

🦉 The azure tit (Cyanistes cyanus hyperrhiphaeus) Cyanistes kyaneos (Greek), cyaneus (Latin) dark blue cyanus Greek: kyanos dark blue hyperrhiphaeus Greek: hyperrheō to overflow, phaios dark, dull I recently

🦉 The Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) Calliope (ancient Greek mythology) Calliope - the eldest of the muses, the goddess of chants, the muse of epic poetry A beautiful and unusual nightingale.

🦉 The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard I meet a family of these birds of prey every year in the same spot. And this place is difficult to pass, filled with windbreaks, a flooded

🦉 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.)

🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red click to play video These birds are quite modest and are found mostly alone. Only with the arrival

Thank you dear @nelinoeva for the competition. You can find the announcement and rules here. And the theme of this week was - Bird and twigs. Greenfinch. It’s not often that I manage to take photos of

🦉 The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius brandtii ) Garrulus lat.: garrire to chat, babble, chirp, garrulus talkative, chirping, noisy; ax prone to.. glandarius glandis, glans (lat.) acorn brandtii brandti,

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush It seems that the behavior of these

🦉 The Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) Bombycilla bombux (Greek) silk, cilla (Latin) tail garrulus lat .: garrire to chatter, babble, chirp, garrulus chatty, chirping, noisy; ax prone to These beautiful

🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March Although these big guys are not common, it is difficult

I already wrote once that squirrels are gradually migrating southward inside the forest. And just recently they reached the old cemetery, covering about 7 km in 8 years. Squirrels are not travelers, and

🦉 The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) Carduelis carduus (Latin) thistle In winter, I don’t often manage to capture these cute colorful birds. Yes, they fly through the

Thank you dear @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the announcement and rules here. This week's theme is - small birds. The little bunting (Emberiza pusilla) This is the smallest bird of this

🦉 The wood warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) Phylloscopus - Greek: phyllon foliage, skopos seeker, observer sibilatrix - lat.: sibilare to whistle, hiss; sibilatrix whistler Oh, this is another new bird

🦉 The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) Phoenicurus Greek: dark red phoinix, oura tail At the beginning of spring, when there is no longer snow (and this is approximately the end of April), while

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big Sometimes it happens that there are no birds in the forest in winter. Absolutely.

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed You will not see these cute charming birds in the city in courtyards, parks and groves.

🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large These yellow-bellied guys can be found at any time of the year, anywhere. And in city courtyards and parks, and in various forests. It’s