Stonechat

You find yourself on a long walk through the woods. Your body and your mind are both relaxed and your own focus is on listening to the birds guide you though the later afternoon. You listen intently to their calls and follow your intuition and the fight of the birds to chart your course. Every once in a while, the stonechats flutter close overhead and the beating of their wings feels almost within your hand’s reach Saxicola (Latin: saxum, rock + incola, dwelling in), the stonechats or chats, is a genus of 15 species of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World. They are insectivores occurring in open scrubland and grassland with scattered small shrubs.