PostsCommentsPayoutsratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 days agoBirdwatching - 3183🐦🦉 The common grasshopper warbler or just grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia) Locustella (Latin) diminutive of locusta grasshopper; cricket naevia naevius (Ixoreus) lat.: naevius spot, naevius spottedratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 3 days agoBirdwatching - 3182🐦🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This tiny, 9-gram bird lives primarily in coniferous forests, but can also be found in mixedratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 4 days agoBirdwatching - 3181🐦🦉 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 I love going to theratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 5 days agoSMaP 240 - Free Theme (Bullfinches)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 fluffy bullfinches? Common Bullfinch These adorableratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 6 days agoBirdwatching - 3180🐦🦉 The common starling or European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Sturnus lat.: sturnus starling, sturninus speckled, spotted vulgaris (lat.) well-known, ordinary This bird is a real mystery to me. For someratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 8 days agoBirdwatching - 3179🐦🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big This most common woodpecker species can be found in any forest, at any time of year.ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 9 days agoBirdwatching - 3178🐦🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black These birds can be found in open spaces such as fields,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 10 days agoBirdwatching - 3177🐦🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird These birds arrive early, in late March, when there'sratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 11 days agoBirdwatching - 3176🐦🦉 The common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting schoeniclus skhoinos (Greek) reed; reeds; -cola (lat.) inhabitant; skhoiniklos (Greek) a small coastal bird mentionedratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 12 days agoSMaP 239 - Free Theme (Woodpeckers)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 woodpeckers? Three-toed Woodpecker I rarely encounterratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 13 days agoBirdwatching - 3175🐦🦉 The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Anthus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird hodgsoni Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894) diplomat, orientalist, naturalist,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 16 days agoBirdwatching - 3174🐦🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating Kites can soar for long periods without flapping their wings, which suits their nature perfectly: they're slow and don'tratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 17 days agoBirdwatching - 3173🐦🦉 The common tern (Sterna hirundo) Sterna stearn, starn (Old English) tern hirundo (Latin) swallow These graceful, sharp-bodied birds emerge in early to mid-May. They nest on sandy and pebble spits andratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 18 days agoBirdwatching - 3172🐦🦉 The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range This bird…ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 19 days agoSMaP 238 - FlockAs always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is -FLOCK Redshank I encountered a flock of these Pinocchios on a lake at theratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 20 days agoBirdwatching - 3171🐦🦉 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 • 23 days agoBirdwatching - 3170🐦🦉 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…ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 24 days agoSMaP 237 - 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 Nutcracker One of my favorite photos, which literally personifiesratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 25 days agoBirdwatching - 3169🐦🦉 Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes certhiola), also known as the rusty-rumped warbler Helopsaltes - ? To be honest, my etymological reference book does not contain such a name; it was obviouslyratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 26 days agoBirdwatching - 3168🐦🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red These birds arrive around mid-May or a little earlier, essentially the
