ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 hours agoBirdwatching - 3238🐦🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black These birds inhabit open spaces, such as meadows or clearingsratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • yesterdayBirdwatching - 3237🐦🦉 The Eurasian treecreeper or common treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) Certhia (Greek): kerthios - a small bird crawling through the trees, mentioned by Aristotle familiaris (lat.): common, easily recognizableratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 days agoBirdwatching - 3236🐦🦉 The common whitethroat or greater whitethroat (Curruca communis) Curruca is an unidentified bird name mentioned in the poems of the ancient Roman poet Juvenal communis (lat.) ordinary, common. Thisratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 3 days agoSMaP 253 - Free Theme (Chaffinch)As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FREE THEME 🦉 The common chaffinch or simply the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 4 days agoBirdwatching - 3235🐦🦉 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, rubeculusratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 7 days agoBirdwatching - 3234🐦🦉 The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) Cuculus (lat.) cuckoo canorus (lat.) melodic, musical Everyone has heard of this bird, but few have seen it in person. And that's not surprising, as it's very cautiousratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 8 days agoSMaP 252 - Birds And FoodAs always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - BIRDS AND FOOD Waxwing In autumn and winter, these beautiful birds feedratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 9 days agoBirdwatching - 3233🐦🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird These yellow birds are sedentary, but in my region itratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 10 days agoBirdwatching - 3232🐦🦉 The Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) Bombycilla bombux (Greek) silk, cilla (Latin) tail garrulus lat .: garrire to chatter, babble, chirp, garrulus chatty, chirping, noisy; ax prone to We haveratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 11 days agoBirdwatching - 3231🐦🦉 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 colorratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 14 days agoBirdwatching - 3230🐦🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This small titmice lives primarily in coniferous forests. These forests are very far fromratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 16 days agoBirdwatching - 3229🐦🦉 The willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) Phylloscopus Greek: phyllon foliage, skopos seeker, observer trochilus trokhilos (Greek) is a small bird mentioned by Aristotle, later identified asratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 17 days agoSMaP 251 - Free Theme (Shorebirds)As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FREE THEME I decided to make a selection of birds that I met on the riverratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 18 days agoBirdwatching - 3228🐦🦉 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 andratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 21 days agoSMaP 250 - Free Theme (Red Birds)As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FREE THEME How about red birds? Bullfinch Of course, the first thing thatratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 22 days agoBirdwatching - 3227🐦🦉 The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) Ficedula fi cedulinus (medieval lat.): “A small bird that feeds on figs and turns into a black-headed warbler in winter ”(from: Jobling, 2010) hypoleucaratel (77)in #photo • 23 days agoChipmunk in the summer forestIt's not easy to spot a chipmunk in the summer. I often hear them when I'm walking along a path; they make a characteristic sound, clearly signaling the approach of danger - me. But the animals themselvesratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 24 days agoBirdwatching - 3226🐦🦉 The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range I don't often encounter these birds in the forests nearratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 25 days agoBirdwatching - 3225🐦🦉 The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) Passer (lat.) sparrow montanus lat .: mōns, montis - mountain, mountain range, montanus - mountain This species of wild sparrow isn't often seen in the courtyardsratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 28 days agoBirdwatching - 3224🐦🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) Spinus spinos (Greek) unidentified bird mentioned Aristotle and other ancient Greek. authors. The Latin name spinus (from spin meaning to rotate) highlights this