Wildlife : Birdwatching - 778 🐦

✔️The western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava)

A graceful slender bird with a long tail. This bird inhabits open areas such as wet meadows, tundra, fields near which there are rivers. These birds can often be seen perched on top of stems or thickets.
In Siberia, these yellow birds appear only when a large number of insects appear, that is, by the beginning of May. At this time, while there is still no dense vegetation, you can easily spot these birds. They cheerfully run along the ground in search of insects.
I noticed that their nestlings and the white wagtail nestlings are very, very similar to each other. Therefore, I constantly confuse them.
They fly away for wintering around the middle of September, when the youth has grown up and got stronger. However, I came across very young birds at the end of September, which most likely meant that the birds started a second clutch, which is very rare in Siberia.