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Kimasar gorge.

9 photos · 17 species
Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)
Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)
Until the sun lighted fir forest I do not see any birds besides one Goldcrest in juniper. But when the sun rose this moment the Tits are hearable and also I hear the Woodpecker's drum. One Coal Tit, one Songar Tit and one Goldcrest flew from the fir-tree and began to search the food on the ground. Songar Tit approached to me closer than other birds and fed on the old peeling cone. I heard the close sounds of White-winged Grosbeaks but did not see them. But almost shorty after sunrise two Nutcrackers were noticed by me.

In the pine-grove at first I did not see any birds, until the shouting White-winged Grosbeak flew from the pines, then after moment the hunting to Grosbeak Goshawk appeared from the grove, and then the Carrion Crow chasing the Goshawk closed the procession. Goshawk noticed me and flew on, Crow flew after it. I was waiting the turning of Goshawk's flying, but unfortunately bird is "from tail" in all photos exclude one where the bird's head is some visible.

I started to go back and in the low fir-forest saw the perched on fir-tree Mistle thrush; no other birds in the forest. But in the gorge's mouth I watched the majority of this trip birds. In first I saw some hundreds Red-fronted Serins (together with some Siskins) in the birch-grove; also here the Mistle Thushes and Magpies were noticed. In the sky I saw two Cinereous Vultures, further two more raptors added to them, one of two was the subadult Golden Eagle, the second one unfortunately was not photographed and well watched beacause flew away very quickly. Further I found the watering place on little stream. Firstly I noticed the bathing Red-fronted Serins, then one Black-throated Thrush, 4 or 5 Blackbirds and two very shy Long-tailed Rosefinches appeared; also I noticed two birds appeared from under the roots of tree, one of them I noticed as a flashed shadow, the second one also was not identified but it seems to me it has black throat and slightly down curved bill as on Black-throat Accentor. These two birds I did not see more, though Long-tailed Rosefinches, Thrushes and Serins come to watering many times. One Serin about five minutes flew around me at a distance about 1 meter and landed to snow from 20-30 cm from my shoes. I was feeling that I can to touch it.
Songar Tit (Parus songarus)
Songar Tit (Parus songarus)
Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus bonapartei)
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus bonapartei)
Cinereous Vultures (Aegypius monachus)
Cinereous Vultures (Aegypius monachus)
Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis)
Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis)
Long-tailed Rosefinch (Uragus sibiricus)
Long-tailed Rosefinch (Uragus sibiricus)
Eurasian Siskin (Carduelis spinus)
Eurasian Siskin (Carduelis spinus)
Red-fronted Serin (Serinus pusillus)
Red-fronted Serin (Serinus pusillus)

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