Kimasar gorge, Ile Alatau National Park.

Day is sunny but morning is quite a cold. Before the sunrise I saw only one Mistle Thrush and heard only one drum of Woodpecker in low spruce-forest. Woodpecker drummed the different branches, the tone of sound was different each time. Almost at the moment I reached the ridge the sun lit the forest. Immediately in the spruce-trees I noticed Goldcrests, Coal Tits, Songar Tits and Three-toed Woodpecker. Woodpecker drummed somewhere near to me but was invisible to me, once I noticed it flying from one spruce-tree to another one, the second time I long time waited it but when it appeared I take photo though in deep shadow of spruce-forest. I guess it was the same bird because the distance between two records is about 100 meters. On the trackers rest place I met the not shy Alpine Accentor which I saw last year. When I went up to juniper bushes I watched here 2 Goldcrests and one pale bird larger and much faster than Goldcrest, but I could not to view it probably because recent days my vision has deteriorated due to long time working on computer. Then I went down to birch-grove where I watched expected Red-fronted Serins and also two (couple?) adult Lammergeiers. Near the grove in the thickets of barberry male and female Tit-Warblers were observed. During the trip I did not recorded expected Crossbills, Red-mantled Rosefinches, White-winged Grosbeaks; Nutcrackers were hearable but unvisible.