Dushanbe, Komsomol lake. Gissar, Botanical Garden.

The Gissar Botanical Garden is lesser than Dushanbe one. It was very pleasant to hear songs of the birds. Base birds were Mynahs and Tree Sparrows, but also there were a lot of Blackbirds, Chaffinches and Bramblings. Once Streaked Laughingthrush jumped out from bushes direct to me, may be on three meters from me.

At the evening I went to Komsomol lake. Again met Kingfishers apparently not going to depart somewhere, one Masked Wagtail. On a shore inaccessible to people Black-headed Gulls and Wadres were fed and rested. Already at home examining photos I thought, that Sandpipers most likely are not Wood but Common Sandpipers. They were large almost like Gulls by size. One of Sandpipers probably fed on that coast I strolled. I did not see bird and noticed it only when it flew up already. And so flight of Sandpiper was more sedate and less bustling, than Green and Wood Sandpipers, wingspan is more. I think that birds are Common Sandpipers.

Ducks were displaced to the middle of lake on evening rest and became more accessible to watching. However my attention was pleasant not to all from them and the part of mallards departed and started to hover above the lake. About ten ducks departed to the West (probably, there is any reservoir too). The majority was a little roaming sat down back. All the same I was not mistaken, on lake there live not only Mallards but also other ducks. The majority certainly Mallards, but today I photographed some Common Pochards.

Already leaving I met one Green Sandpiper and one more Kingfisher.

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