Birdwatching - 3156🐦

🦉 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

How I love to go out into the forest in early spring and hear the first Chaffinch birds that have just arrived. However, these forest singers can be found even earlier, but at those moments they are still “flying” to their places, and therefore do not sing songs yet.
And as soon as the males arrive and look for a suitable territory for them, they immediately begin to sing their famous songs, marking their territory.

And then, after some time, after a few days or a week, the females arrive. The females are coloured inconspicuously, not brightly, similar in colour to the sparrows we are all accustomed to. Unlike the arrival, these birds fly away unnoticed. I even managed to meet them at the beginning of November.