Birdwatching - 1760 🐦

🦉 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

There is very little time left before these beautiful noisy birds arrive, about 3-4 weeks. With the arrival of cold weather, these birds unite in large flocks and all fly together from the distant north to the south to survive the cold winter.

During this cold time, they visit parks, forests, groves and courtyards of cities and villages. In these places they sit on bushes with berries and fruits and eat them. Mostly, of course, these are rowan berries in cities, they grow most of all. But in the forests, these birds happily eat viburnum and small wild apples.