Начало весны - это, прежде всего пролет. Под пролетом подразумеваются массовые скопления уток и куликов на водоемах. В качестве второго блюда принимается воробьиная мелочь по лесополосам и кустарникам. Поэтому большой компанией поехали туда, где есть достаточно открытой воды и деревья с кустарниками - на разливы реки К…
Облачно до пасмурного, но дождя нет. Бердинг начался прямо в городе. Утром взял фотоаппарат и снял ожидаемую синюю птицу на каскадах Весновки. В утреннем слабом освещении она вышла просто замечательно синей. Проехались вдоль предгорий Заилийского Алатау от А-Аты до Дегереса. Реальные наблюдения начались лишь от Узунага…
Day is hot and sunny. Trip with Gennady and Elena Dyakins to Degeres for Rock Nuthutch and to Akterek for Paradise Flycatcher. In Degeres we expected quickly to take photos of common in this place Rock Nuthutch and quickly went for Paradise Flycatcher. But everything went not according to plan. First known nest of Nuth…
The warm and sunny day. Trip with Raufael Bairashev and Gennady Dyakin to western foothills of Sailisky Alatau ridge. Kastek. There is the military post in the Kastek gorge now, it means that there is not possibility to walk in the gorge. So we had only watching the birds of the foothills and the beginning of gorge. A…
Sunny, warm day. Trees are without leaves, but the slopes of foothills already covered by fresh green grass. In roadside thickets we saw Wood Pigeons and in places the Kestrels. Rooks are on nests already. On foothills the most popular bird was Corn Bunting. Buntings perched on bushes and wires, on some wires we counte…
After more the one month period without special birding trips I with Raufael Bairashev made the birding tour to Degeres. In the colony of Rosy Starlings there was the noise which I didn't wait. I thought that Rosy Starlings already started the autumn wanderings. But we saw that many juvenile birds couldn't make it. The…
There weren't any new birds in foothills. A lot of Rooks, and (Red-headed Buntings, Rollers, Bee-eaters, Corn Buntings, and Lesser Grey Shrikes) are also common birds of the foothills. In Sunkar one male Ruddy Shelduck, Common Starlings and Isabelline Wheatears were occurred. On the roadside between Sunkar and Degeres…
Kaskelen gorge. On the slopes with dog-rose thickets I saw Rollers, Magpies, all the time the calls of Pheasants and Chukars were hearable. The Kestrel flew along the slope. Once the Golden Eagle appeared high above the rocks and soared a short time, the pair of Sparrowhawk escorted Eagle and tried to attack it. Twice…
The road to Ushkonur lake was blocked and guarded as in all of my previous visits. Birds I saw: a lot of Common Rollers (first time in this year); on the way to the plateau we watched one Chukar Partridge; and at the plateau the Kestrel, Long-legged Buzzard, the pair of Himalayan Gryphon-Vultures, one Golden Eagle, man…
It's one of the rare sunny days in a rainy spring. All the foothills are covered with green grass and blooming apricot trees. There are busy Jackdaws and resting Rock Pigeons and Mynahs around the holes in clay steeps. Common Starlings are not met often but catch our eyes every time. We saw many Rooks. Large and well n…
Karakastek. Photohunt to sparrows is continuing (see trip to Bakanas to Saxaul Sparrow). Today main object of searching is Spanish Sparrow. Spanish Sparrow is social bird. In the colonies of Spanish Sparrows thousands of birds may live. First colonies began over Karakastek. Number of birds is not thousands but hundreds…
The road to Degeres. Began to watch the birds only over Uzunagash. Each 20 kilometers watched different birds. Permanently saw Magpies, Jackdaws, Starlings on the road, Mynahs, Masked Wagtails in localities. Amazing a little of sparrows. Uzunagash – Karakastek. Over Uzunagash on a little river saw a flock of Green Sand…
День мухоловок и сорокопутов. Мухоловок просто море. Если ехать на машине не торопясь и разглядывать нижние ветки карагачей, растущих вдоль обочины, то можно увидеть очень большое серых мухоловок. Шустрые, ловкие, и, как раньше говорили, полезные для народного хозяйства птицы. Непонятные чеканы на скалистом перевале. О…
Очень много птиц. Кроме привычных золотистых щурок, сизоворонок, розовых скворцов, чернолобых сорокопутов, индийских и черногрудых воробьев увидел в небольшом количестве и двух новых для себя птиц – непонятную каменку с черной грудью и темного цвета спиной (может быть пустынную) и пустынного сорокопута (Lanius pallidir…
