Wryneck
Jynx torquilla
42.6482, 18.1008
Field Notes
Description:
My second photo-session with this beauty on the same spot, and my Wryneck was much more collaborative when it came to posing, allowing me enough time in each position... Wryneck is roughly the blackbird size, mottled-brown with some black stripes and scaly-looking above, and cream-coloured below, with some horizontal stripes on throat, while speckled brown on the belly. The bill is short with large base, unlike its "cousins", woodpeckers.
Habitat:
Here, seen again feasting on exposed insects after the grass and flowers were cut (against my wishes...) on terraces in our garden. Located at outskirts of Dubrovnik, on lower slopes of Srdj mountain, the garden is terraced and covered in Mediterranean fruit trees and spontaneous vegetation. In spring, these terraces are overgrown in beautiful dense carpet of spontaneous Mediterranean herbs and melliferous flowers.
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