ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 days agoBirdwatching - 3211🐦🦉 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're usedratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 3 days agoBirdwatching - 3210🐦🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird These birds are generally sedentary and winter residents,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 4 days agoBirdwatching - 3209🐦🦉 The white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) Dendrocopos (Greek): dendron - tree, coptō - to hit, beat leucotos (Greek): leukos - white, nōton - back This woodpecker species is similar in appearanceratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 5 days agoSMaP 246 - Free Theme (Birds with food)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 birds with food? Bullfinch I saw this chubby, sweetratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 6 days agoBirdwatching - 3208🐦🦉 The Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) Oriolus oryolus (lat.) oriole [Old French. oryol oriole, aureolus gold] This bird is one of the most coveted among wildlife photographers. It's very difficultratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 8 days agoBirdwatching - 3207🐦🦉 The willow tit (Poecile montanus) Poecile poikilis (Greek) an unidentified small bird mentioned in ancient texts montanus (lat .) : mōns, montis mountain, mountain range, montanus mountain These restlessratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 9 days agoBirdwatching - 3206🐦🦉 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.ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 10 days agoSMaP 245 - Free Theme (Corvids)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 corvids? Common Raven These majestic birds inhabitratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 11 days agoBirdwatching - 3205🐦🦉 The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) Actitis (Greek) - inhabitant of the coast hypoleucos (Greek): - whitish While strolling along the shore in May, you might stumble across this small sandpiper.ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 12 days agoBirdwatching - 3204🐦🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red I encounter these red sparrows (as they were called in the old days)ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 13 days agoBirdwatching - 3203🐦🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March I see these big guys in mixed and coniferous forests. Theyratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 15 days agoBirdwatching - 3202🐦🦉 The white wagtail (Motacilla alba) Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name) alba (lat.) white These gracefulratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 16 days agoBirdwatching - 3201🐦🦉 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 • 17 days agoBirdwatching - 3200🐦🦉 The redwing (Turdus iliacus) Turdus (Latin) thrush iliacus ilia (lat.) sides, iliacus with sides (i.e. with red sides) The first thing you notice about this bird is the broad white eyebrow above itsratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 18 days agoBirdwatching - 3199🐦🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red A sparrow-sized bird. The adult male is brightly colored, with a distinctiveratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 19 days agoSMaP 244 - Male BirdsAs always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - MALE BIRDS Chaffinch While the female is difficult to distinguish from aratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 20 days agoBirdwatching - 3198🐦CameraLensNikon D5200Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporaryratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 23 days agoBirdwatching - 3196🐦🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) These brightly colored birds attract attention in the spring, when, after winter migrations, they break up into small flocks andratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 24 days agoSMaP 243 - Female BirdsAs always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FEMALE BIRDS Chaffinch The females of these birds are very similar in appearanceratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 25 days agoBirdwatching - 3195🐦🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red I often hear the same question: "Where do bullfinches fly in the spring?" Well, to
