Tajikistan. Hoja Obigarm.

At early morning to my surprise birds were a little. Yellow-breasted and Turkestan Tits sang the songs. First time I heard song of Streaked Laughingthrush, the song isn't intricate, common whistle. In first I even thought that it was human's whistle. The Martins (look like House Martin) arrived, on morning I saw several tens birds. Martins actively explored old nests which are a lot. At dinner time Woodpecker came again, but Woodpecker doesn't like attention to self person. When I stopped only, Woodpecker moved to other side of the branch and after flew out.

Before the dinner I climbed to the slope. On the low belt some times saw Black Redstarts, always by pairs, once the pair of Stonechats. The male Stonechat was absolutely known, but female looked some greenish to me. Both Stonechats and Black Redstarts searched feed on the damp ground. Climbed some higher some times I saw the flying Grey-headed Goldfinches. Some higher on the high junipers I saw the pair of Blue-capped Redstarts. Heard but didn't see Chukar Partridges and Rock Nuthatches. Twice I saw flying Wallcreepers, once the pair and once one bird. On the spine I met Lammergeier which was my main aim in this trip. One year age Lemmergeier with black head quickly disappear behind the slope. I waited it about forty minutes but Lammergeier or other raptors didn't arrive. When I descended I saw Lammergeier again, bird soared lowly in the same place when I saw it yesterday.

After the dinner on the river I by accident flushed the Little Forktail. White-winged Woodpeckers alighted again. Even close to me the pair of Laughingthrushes and female Brambling fed. On sundown time Yellow-breasted Tits, Turkestan Tits and Laughingthrushes sang actively. The male of the Rock Nuthatch sang on the roof.

1. Streaked Laughingthrush (Garrulax lineatus)

2. Yellow-breasted Tit (Parus flavipectus)

3. White-Winged Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucopterus)

4. Turkestan Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros phoenicuroides)

5. Common Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)

6. Blue-capped Redstart (Phoenicurus caeruleocephalus)

7. Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus)

8. Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus)

9. White-Winged Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucopterus)

10. Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)

11. Streaked Laughingthrush (Garrulax lineatus)

12. Streaked Laughingthrush (Garrulax lineatus)

13. Streaked Laughingthrush (Garrulax lineatus)