🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus)
📚 Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant
📚 maurus (lat.): Moorish, black
We have meadows outside the city, near a river, and in the middle of the meadow there is one large lake and a small seasonal one. It is in this place that birds that cannot be found in the forest live.
These birds are like meerkats. They climb to the very tops of tall grasses and vegetation to observe the situation on their territory.
For some reason, they are not very afraid of people. And not only in this place, where they can observe, for example, fishermen, but even on a small edge near the forest, where people rarely appear. This eliminates their habit of seeing people. Most likely they just have such a character.
Here is another photo from those places. As you can see, there are tall grasses and small bushes all around.
🦉 The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus)
📚 Passer (lat.) sparrow
📚 montanus lat .: mōns, montis - mountain, mountain range, montanus - mountain
Not far from this place is the main city river. And along the banks you can always find these guys.
They are not in the courtyards of the city, not in the forests, only along the banks where bushes grow. It is in these bushes that they spend all their time. And with the onset of winter, they migrate closer to the city, where they can be seen in the park on feeding troughs.