Birdwatching - 1654 🐦

🦉 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

On the very outskirts of the city, near a large river and a flooded coast, there is a small forest belt, in the ravine of which these wonderful birds live. From year to year I meet them in this place.
Coming to this place, you can be sure that they are there, even if they are not seen or heard. It is enough to turn on the voices of these birds on the phone's speaker, and in a moment a male or female will fly to the sound.

In the "walls" of this ravine, birds dig holes and give birth to babies. And when they grow up, the birds fly away to a seasonal lake not far from this ravine. There they have something of a training ground for the younger generation.