Temirtau. Karaganda oblast.

In Temirtau city there is a Samarkand reservoir. Reservoir is large, coast by places overgrown by reeds by places coast is sandy. Almost everywhere fishermen on the shore catch fish. In the shore bushes the small flocks of House Sparrows chirp, Yellow and White Wagtails fly. Noticeable large birds are Black-headed Gulls and Coots. On one place Coots and Black-headed Gulls feed on three meters from the fishermen. This trustfulness is rare on birds behaviour in Kazakhstan. Moorhens are more fearful. Moorhens departed from the reeds only when young fisherman approached to reeds closely. But nevertheless even Moorhens sailed not far from the sitting fishermen.

Besides Black-headed Gulls on the reservoir there are Caspian Gulls. Several times I saw Mew Gulls. Some tens Black-headed Gulls chose to rest metallic construction. I approached them in the hope to photograph the trimmed Caspian and Mew Gulls. But exactly these two birds flew away first. Other seen birds are Crested Grebes, Sparrowhawk, two young Rooks.

1. White Wagtail (Motacilla alba dukhunensis)

2. Common Coots (Fulica atra)

3. Common Coots (Fulica atra)

4. Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)

5. Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans)

6. Mew Gull (Larus canus heinei)

7. Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus)