I would like to say thank you to dear @nelinoeva for this competition. You can find the announcement and rules here. This week's theme is - TOGETHER This is a very timely topic, because now the mating

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush This is what I noticed: these birds

🦉 The Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) Oriolus oryolus (lat.) oriole [Old French. oryol oriole, aureolus gold] An incredibly beautiful bird. It has the richest and brightest yellow plumage. But

In the fall, while walking through the forest, I saw a squirrel tearing moss from the bottom of a tree and taking it somewhere up. This way she insulates her home. She ran back and forth along the same

🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark click to play video This small, dark-colored tit prefers coniferous forests, but can sometimes

🦉 The little stint (Calidris minuta) (or Erolia minuta) Calidris kalidris or skalidris (Greek) unknown bird mentioned by Aristotle minuta Latin: minutus small, minutellus very small Erolia erolie (French)

🦉 The lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) curruca - is an unidentified bird name mentioned in poems by the ancient Roman poet Juvenal I sometimes meet these birds in the spring, in places where bushes

I would like to say thank you to dear @nelinoeva for this competition. You can find the announcement and rules here. This week's theme is - FREE THEME There is very little time left before the arrival

🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) Spinus spinos (Greek) unidentified bird mentioned Aristotle and other ancient Greek. authors. These yellow birds appear in the forests around the beginning of April,

🦉 The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) Phoenicurus Greek: dark red phoinix, oura tail We call this bird a “burning tail”. And this is logical, when a bird is alarmed, it twitches its bright rufous

🦉 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 These

🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red This wonderful plump bird is the personification of winter. Therefore, she is depicted in various

🦉 The Eurasian wryneck or northern wryneck (Jynx torquilla) Jynx iynx, iyngis (Greek, Lat.) wryneck ; Iynga in ancient Greek. mythology, a beautiful nymph, the daughter of the god of the forest Pan and

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed These charming creatures can be found at any time of the year in deciduous or mixed forests,

🦉 Siberian chiffchaff (Phylloscopus (collybita) tristis) Phylloscopus Greek: phyllon foliage, skopos seeker, observer ollybita collybista (lat.), kollybistēs, kollybos (Greek) money changer, small coin

🦉 The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal These relatives of white wagtails arrive in the

🦉 The white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) Dendrocopos (Greek): dendron - tree, coptō - to hit, beat leucotos (Greek): leukos - white, nōton - back I took these photos at the very end of autumn,

🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating These birds are among the first to return from wintering grounds, in the so-called first wave. And this happens, of course,

One day at the end of September, while walking through the forest, I heard the rustling of dry leaves. I followed the sound and saw this furry friend. In the fall, these animals actively stock up on food;

🦉 The black-throated thrush (Turdus atrogularis) Turdus (lat) - Thrush atrogularis - lat.: ater black, dark, gula throat This species of thrushes is very similar to fieldfare thrushes, which is why I