Birdwatching - 3183🐦

ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 3 days ago

🦉 The common grasshopper warbler or just grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia)

Locustella (Latin) diminutive of locusta grasshopper; cricket

naevia naevius (Ixoreus) lat.: naevius spot, naevius spotted

Oh, it was really hard to take these photos. I encountered this bird in a meadow near the city. This area is mostly inhabited by its close relatives, the Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes certhiola), or "song crickets" (as we call them). But suddenly I encountered this species. We call it the "common cricket". It's all about its voice; it literally sounds like the insect of the same name.

I photographed "song crickets" without any problems; the bird was minding its own business and was easily lured by the sound. But I spent a fair amount of time on this one. It was always hiding in the undergrowth, reluctant to show itself. Even when he heard its voice on the phone speaker,he didn't jump out of the undergrowth but continued singing inside, carefully hidden. I saw it for literally a split second. And so, waiting for the wind to blow and bend the branch, I had to fall sideways and take these photos as I fell.