Sorbulak. Almaty oblast.

There are no Rosy Starlings in Sorbulak. The colony site is empty. The loner Dalmatian Pelicans floated. Crested Grebes floated with chicks on the back. Great Cormorants were not a lot, two birds were on the bank, the single birds from time to time flew by. Grey Herons, Great White Egrets, Ruddy Shelducks with chicks, Ferruginous Ducks, Red-crested Pochards, Northern Shovelers, Black-winged Stilts, Lapwings, Caspian Gulls, Black-headed Gulls, one Kingfisher, Common Starlings. On the sand bank Terns fed juveniles; Common Terns located in one side of the bank, but Little Terns a little further. The active movement was going on inside the reeds, Coots and Crested Grebes were hearable and visible, from time to time the large warblers (probably Great Reed or Clamorous Reed Warblers) and Little Bitterns flew off from the reeds.

On the back way on roadsides the most noticeable birds were Black Kites and Rosy Starlings.

1. Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus)

2. Little Terns (Sterna albifrons)

3. Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus)

4. Black Kites (Milvus migrans lineatus)

5. Black Kite (Milvus migrans lineatus)