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 I decided to show a photo of birds from my favorite

🦉 The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range For some reason, these close relatives of the Chaffinches

🦉 The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) Passer (lat.) sparrow montanus lat .: mōns, montis - mountain, mountain range, montanus - mountain This is the wild brother of the familiar house sparrow.

🦉 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 forest singers

🦉 The bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) Luscinia (lat.) Nightingale svecica suecicus (lat.) Swedish; the name svecica, according to the history of the description, is not a toponym, but is given for the color

🦉 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,

🦉 The grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the grey-faced woodpecker Picus (lat.) woodpecker; in Romanesque mythology, Peak, or Picus, the Roman god of forests and the king of Latium,

🦉 The common starling or European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Sturnus lat.: sturnus starling, sturninus speckled, spotted vulgaris (lat.) well-known, ordinary For some, starlings are ordinary birds that

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed These small white balls with a protruding long tail live in the forests all year round.

🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This is one of our smallest tits. It looks very similar to the great tit, but is smaller

🦉 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.)

This is a post to go with #WednesdayWalk challenge by @tattoodjay. I haven’t been to the meadows near the river outside the city for two years, all because the bridge was under repair and it was impossible

This is a post to go with #WednesdayWalk challenge by @tattoodjay. I haven’t been to the meadows near the river outside the city for two years, all because the bridge was under repair and it was impossible

🦉 The Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) Calliope (ancient Greek mythology) Calliope - the eldest of the muses, the goddess of chants, the muse of epic poetry The encyclopedias say that these funny

🦉 The European robin (Erithacus rubecula) Erithacus erithakos (Greek) unidentified small bird in the works of ancient authors; erythros (Greek, lat.) red rubecula ruber (lat.) red, reddish, rubeculus

🦉 The spotted nutcracker, Eurasian nutcracker, or just nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorhynchos) Nucifraga Latin: nux - walnut, frangere - to smash, crush caryocatactes Greek: karyon - walnut,

🦉 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 guys are one

🦉 The Siberian long-tailed rosefinch (Carpodacus sibiricus) (outdated name - Uragus Sibiricus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite Uragus oura (Greek) tail, ago (Latin) set in motion, make sibiricus

🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black These funny birds arrive in early May, when it is already

🦉 The willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) Phylloscopus Greek: phyllon foliage, skopos seeker, observer trochilus trokhilos (Greek) is a small bird mentioned by Aristotle, later identified as