Kaskelen gorge. Ile Alatau National Park.

Kaskelen Gorge. Special one-day expedition to the birds. In early morning most interesting is vision to Black-throated Accentors and Tits. Accentors eat on the tops of fir trees. Tits (Azure Tits and Coal Tits) east some down. To see all process of eating need to stay above on a slope. Birds quickly get used to man.

When some warmly time to go to birch wood. This light mountain wood is habitat of Tien Shan Spotted Woodpecker. I saw Woodpecker in company of Mistle Thrushes. Often (especially in winter time) Woodpecker fly and eat with Tits together. Today Woodpecker do it with Mistle Thrushes.

Midday time. Air was worm. Time to raptors. Long-legged Buzzard and Goshawk makes flight of territory. This time all birds are silence. After five minutes there were Coal Tits. From some time there were other birds.

Today I saw Wren so closely. Wren does not depart far from the bush. When I sat close to bush I saw Wren's moving over the bush.

I tried to photograph Blue-caped Redstarts (only one redstart with non red tail). But birds were very quickly. But when I sat down under the fir tree Redstarts didn't attend to me. May be Redstart feel in safety under fir tree. Autumn Redstart males don't have blue cap. The cap is brownish.

On a return way has met Kestrels and young White-bellied Dipper.

1. Black-throated Accentor (Prunella atrogularis huttoni)

2. Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major tianschanicus)

3. Songar Tit (Parus songarus)

4. Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentiles)

5. Northern Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes tianschanicus)

6. Blue-capped Redstart (Phoenicurus caeruleocephalus)

7. Blue-capped Redstart (Phoenicurus caeruleocephalus)

8. Eurasian Dipper (Cinclus cinclus leucogaster)