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2013-03-24 | Askar Isabekov
My Groundhog Day starts from the singing of Blackbirds, then couple of Chaffinches appears, then Tits, Starlings come, and White-winged Woodpecker pounds the pole. New event is only displaying of Wood Pigeon to the Collared Dove.Today is warm and cloudy. Our guided group visited the Kishi-Kaindy gorge of the Aksu-Zhabagly Reserve. Gorge on the side of track is the rare forest of high juniper-trees. Another side is more than half covered by rocks. The final destination of our rout is the waterfall. My own targets of this tracking are Black-breasted Tit and Tawny Owl. Both of them were found. The most popular today bird is Black-throated thrush which was hearable all the time, and some times visible in the junipers. Also we often saw the flocks of Waxwings. Other little passerines were observed by one at time, of latters we saw Tits, Blue-capped Redstarts, Black-throated Accentor, Red-rumped Rosefinch, Wrens. Waxwings, some of thrushes and Redstarts were catching insects in fly like Flycatchers [...... read more ]
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2013-03-23 | Askar Isabekov
Today is cloudy, morning is even misty. Significant wind is almost all the day. Zhabagly – Chokpak. Morning is again started from the songs of different birds and drumming of Wood pecker. In addition to yesterday birds we saw Wood Pigeion and two Yellow-brested Tits. Tits very active came to the sound but light was a bit to take photo. Yellow-breated and Hybrid Tits also were observed later in the roadside thickets in Chokpak Pass. Also here we saw the large (perhaps more than one hundred birds) mixed flock of Chaffinches and Bramblings, and we saw the Jackdaws building the nests.Ters-Ashybulak. When we arrived to reservoir in the mist we saw Greylag and White-fronted Geese, Great grey Shrike, Sparrowhawk and Little Bustards. Further the significant records during the road to Akkol lake are two Black Redstarts near Karakemer and Pygmy Cormorants in the lake near 27th station.Akkol lake is located to westward from Taraz city and very large, the birds on the another side of lake are not [...... read more ]
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2013-03-22 | Askar Isabekov
Zhabagly village. Today is sunny, sometimes slightly cloudy, windless day, all we need is this day. As soon as the sun rise, immediately there were birds. In the garden Blackbirds and Starlings started to sing the songs, Woodpeckers started to drum, Chaffinches and Bramblings landed to ash-tree, Collared Doves began to fly one to another, Mynahs, Jackdaws, Rooks started to be active too. We take some photos, had breakfast and go to Ters-Ashybulak reservoir.Ters-Ashybulak. The morning Talas Alatau ridge is very beauty, it is very white with clouds in foothills, perhaps yesterday rain in plains was the snow in mountains. During the branch road from highway to reservoir there are some little lakes on which Ducks were feeding and resting, on the one lake together with Lapwings and Shovellers. Also I saw the large flying flock of Lapwings. I saw the flying flocks of Cranes too. In the roadside thickets there were Kestrels and little passerines including the first in this spring Isabelline Shrike [...... read more ]
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2013-03-21 | Askar Isabekov
Today is warm, sometimes cloudy, with rain in evening. We drove fast, watching birds on roadsides, but didn’t stopped due to each bird. In the Avraisa we stayed to watch and take photo of House Martins and immediately see them. Martins already built new nests which are wet but full constructed. From the car window in Kurdai we noticed flying Swifts but didn’t stay due to absence of light so photos couldn’t be good. In Aspara we stayed near the nest of White Storks; near the highway already there are no nests, I think due to active construction of the new road. But on the main large nest which is located far from the road there is the couple of Storks which are mated even when we are present. We approached very close and Storks landed from the nest to ground and further flew away. One more staying was in waterless Komsomol lake in Taraz city where we saw a bit of birds. But this time the rain was started and chased us all the rest way to Zhabagly village. It was curious to watch the [...... read more ]
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2013-03-20 | Askar Isabekov
Yesterday I heard buzzing of Greenfinches but today I watched the singing Chaffinch. Unfortunately I have no camera, in this case I could to make nice video. [...... read more ]
2013-03-17 | Askar Isabekov
Today is sunny, slightly windy, +15C. I went to Dendropark especially to Buntings. I brought food, tea and sleeping pad, so I was ready. I was sitting on the sun and watching the butterflies (Small Tortoiseshells and Common Brimstones), twice I saw Shrews. But I saw a bit of birds, the Rock Buntings were only three and they didn’t approach to me. Only Eastern Buzzards were the significant record of day. In the beginning I noticed one bird perching on the pole, then I a long time was watching same bird on the poplar trees. Then second Buzzard suddenly appeared and already two birds began to play the air games in the sky. After some time Buzzards separated and began to soar each alone. Buzzards are very similar, one is some darker with uniform belly. [...... read more ]
2013-03-16 | Askar Isabekov
Internet weather report promised the partial cloudy weather, but day was overcast with little rain in morning. After noon rain finished and I went to Dendropark to watch birds. I expected to view migrating Wagtails and Weatears, but in vain. I saw flying little passerines in the dark sky, but they are not Wagtails but more likely Buntings. Most active birds are Magpies part of which are play one with another, but some birds were bringing little branches to nest building. In two spots I noticed pairs of male Pheasants, one pair ran one to another, second one too, but not only ran on ground but on tree too. Flock of Rock Buntings didn’t posture to me, flew from one place to another until I was tired to follow them. Other birds of today birding: Black-throated Thrush, Eastern Buzzard (perhaps two birds), Great Tits, couple of Chaffinches, Merlin. Also I flushed the Lark. I was waiting when bird lands, but Lark flew away. In my opinion it is Crested Lark but I am not sure.Snow free meadows [...... read more ]
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2013-03-10 | Askar Isabekov
Trip to the Chilik River with Oleg, Vassily and Nikolai Postnikov. Day is windy, cold and overcast in morning but sunny and warm after noon. The road was wet with ice patches in the day beginning but all dry when we came back. During all Kuldja Road almost until Chilik we saw thousand active Rooks and Jackdaws prepairing to migration. Near Chilik on the partialy covered by snow field the arrived Lapwings and Starlings were feeding, one of the features of the spring. In the thickets of floodplain of Chilik River there are a lot of birds which are not yet start to move to breeding spots and mostly were feeding by last-year berries of berberis and sea buckthorn bushes. During more than one hour birding we saw tens of Blackbirds and Black-throated Thrushes, Eversmann’s Redstarts which presented the majority of birds. Other species were observed by few single birds; of them we saw several Guldenstadt’s Redstart, two Red-mantled Rosefinches, Azure Tits, Black-throated Accentor, Waxwing. Some [...... read more ]
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2013-03-09 | Askar Isabekov
Weather is overcast, probably will be snow in evening, temperature is slightly below zero. Due to snowfall birds came back to Samal. Bramblings and Chaffinches feed the ash-tree seeds, Crossbills hull the pine cones. On one pine-tree I saw about 10-15 Crossbills which were feeding mostly down head because many snow are above braches. Also I saw Crossbills eating snow and chase one another from the (probably) seed-full cones. Great Tits were feeding on the snow under the pine-trees, perhaps the seeds which fell down when Crossbills feed. Unfortunately there are no sun, birds were so close.Many birds waited me on the feeder in my working place, mostly Laughing Doves and Sparrows. Snow covered land, and birds come to feeders. [...... read more ]
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2013-03-02 | Askar Isabekov
I briefly walked in Dendropark. Birds are a bit, snow is a lot, no open land. I saw one butterfly (perhaps Aglais urticae), one Pyrrhocoris apterus and three bats which were flying in day time and rather high. Flying by Sparrowhawk tried to catch one of Bats but not active, missed and flew on. [...... read more ]
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