Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1534 🐦

🦉 The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

📚 Alcedo alcedinis, alcyon, or halcedo, halcedinis (lat.) kingfisher; word "hals" in ancient Greek language meant "sea", along with the word thalassa. According to ancient Greek mythology Alcyone (Alcyone), the daughter of the wind god Eol, was the wife of Keix, who drowned due to the wrath of the gods. Alcyone, out of grief, threw herself into the sea, and also died. The gods had mercy and turned the spouses into kingfishers. Looking for her husband, Alcyone calls all the time “Keix! Keix!" and dives, trying to find him in the sea. Alcyone days - two weeks of calm weather around the day winter solstice. During these days, Eol pacified the winds so that Alcyone, in the form of a kingfisher, could hatch chicks in her nest floating on the waves.
📚 atthis (ancient Greek mythology) Attis, a divine youth of extraordinary beauty

There is one interesting place in the forest on the outskirts of the city. This forest itself is located on the banks of a large river flowing along my city and other cities. So, there is a small ravine in this forest, in which a small spring flows, bushes grow, and clay landslides on the sides. And it is in this place that these beautiful birds constantly, from year to year, live.

In these clay landslides, or rather the walls, these birds dig holes. And finally, I managed to photograph them immediately together, male and female.
It was difficult because the birds are shy and the place is very uncomfortable to stand there, but it was worth it.