Malay-Sary. Bakanas.

My trip to Bakanas was private and wasn't special birding tour. Therefore I watched and photographed only birds which were close to the roadside. On the roadsides from Kapchagai reservoir till Malay-Sary Pass the most popular bird was Red-headed Bunting. Singing males of Red-headed Bunting were noticed almost each fifty meters. The Stonechats were popular too. In addition to these birds I saw Black Kites, Rollers, quite a few Common Kestrels, Lesser and Greater Whitethroats, Bluethroats, different Shrikes, one Tawny Pipit, two Hobbies.

Directly before the Malay-Sary pass on the little lake I saw the mixed flock of Garganeys and Northern Shovellers. Almost from this place the Rosy Starlings started dating in flocks and singly.

Over the Malay-Sary pass till Bakanas the most popular bird was Isabelline Wheatear. The road passes the desert with bushes. There were a lot of Rosy Starlings. From time to time I noticed Kestrels perching on poles, three times I saw Long-legged Buzzards. In Bakanas village there were the flock of Doves, Rooks, one Cuckoo. On Ile river in bushes there were Indian and Tree Sparrows and Common Rosrfinches. The pair of Syke's Warbler behaved as if to build the nest under the bush (birds had the grass in bills). Directly in Ile river there were Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Barn Swallows and Common Terns. In evening Nightingales were heard.