Weather is cold (-10 morning, -6 day) but sunny and almost windless. At 8.30 am I visited Park Zhambyla, nothing found, and went to Komsomolsky island where I was about 3 and half very alive hours. I expected to watch the little passerines and my expectations were met. Today main spot is the little pine grove on the Ir…
There are rainy days in Ust-Kamenogorsk, last night the rain turned to morning snow. Because morning is without precipitation I made the short walk to next parks. Park of Dzhambul. At 8 am it was very dark, so when I noticed little Warblers under the bush I take photo with ISO 3200 and exposition 1/20 sec. Photos are b…
The half-day trip to the mountains to east from Ust-Kamenogorsk with Viktor Kolesnikov. The weather is mostly cloudy and quite windy, but it’s very easy in some downwind gorges. Due to snow we couldn’t go far from the road therefore we watched birds mostly near asphalt. We saw Dipper in Malaya Ulba river; in the roadsi…
Today me and Natali Kim visited Komsomolsky island. Most of significant observed birds are separated to two groups: new ducks and little passerines. The latter can be also separated to two groups: common winter visitors and surprisingly belated migrans. Ducks. In the dispersed small flocks of Mallards we watched 2 Comm…
В ночь с 24 на 25 октября пошел небольшой снег. Над Иртышом подул ветер, который все усиливался и усиливался, пока не превратился в настоящую бурю. Сквозь шум ветра, где-то в вышине слышался печальный голос птиц, застигнутых внезапно начатой непогодой.....крики были похожи на гоготание гусей, но сквозь снежную мглу сам…
The short tour to silverberry thickets at Gerasimovka village with Viktor Kolesnikov and Rimma Kim. Very cloudy weather, the frost was not felt in the beginning but was explicite in the end of trip. Birds were a lot because the food is a lot of course. Birds were feeding both in the silverberry trees and on the sunflow…
Я нашел интересное место, по нашей улицей. Каждый день иду туда наблюдать птиц. Там густой кустарник который по ограду. Вчера не отходя с этого места наблюдал птиц и получилось очень интересно. На кустике прыгала черногорлая завирушка, пока я ждал что бы сделать хорошую кадр, надомной пролетели хищники, вокруг куста ко…
Dank and overcast weather. Birding in Left-side Park. Park is very large and very pleasure to walking. In the morning birds are a bit perhaps because there is very cold. The first spot of birds activity is the thickets near labyrinth. We tried to attract Willow tits by sound but not only Willow Tits but Coal Tits, Grea…
Urban Birding in Ust-kamenogorsk with Rimma Kim and Natalia Kim. Weather is cold, mostly cloudy in morning and sunny after midday. Trip by the right side of Irtysh river from the city beach to the dispensary (Profilaktory). Quite a lot of people especially with dogs, perhaps there is event of dogs lovers. Birds: a lot…
Morning, 8am. Dzhambul Park. Weather is very nice, almost sunny and cold. Thrushes were eating berries (viburnum, barberry, but mostly little apples). I saw two Blackbirds, two Fieldfares and many Black-throated Thrushes. The local Blackbirds are very shy unlike ones in Almaty. Also in park I watched Great Tits, Nuthat…
Утром выехал в Медео. Выше от дамбы на реке отметил парочку бурых оляпок, и на дамбе горного конька. на склоне в зарослях сквозь растительность снял когото неопределенного. У восточного края дамбы заметил парящего над перевалом в ущелье Кимасар молодого беркута. Решил прогулятся по перевалу. Еще внизу мне попозировал к…
Yesterday in Ust-Kamenogorsk there was the rain turning into the first of this autumn snow. Today is mostly cloudy weather but without precipitation. I again went to the riverside. Noticed the hybrid Crow and thought that this crow may be the most important record of today. But then I watched two other hybrid Crows. An…
Short walking on Irtysh riverside. Quite a cold weather, mist at morning but sun after lunch-time. The Cormorants, Mallards and three Goosanders were flying up- and downstream along the river. Caspian Gulls and Cormorants rested in the middle-river island. Hundreds of Rock Pigeons were drinking water from the river. In…
Recent weeks I quite often visited the Republic Square. But I didn’t publish posts because there were no any significant records. Every visit I watched only common birds. After the rainy days I felt the winter’s coming. Now is the off-season time when most of birds migrated but the winter visitors did not come. I go to…
