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Kumbel. Ile Alatau National Park.


2009-06-20| Askar Isabekov

At sunrise time I waked up and at 6 am I was on the glacier. The first birds I saw were the Yellow-billed Choughs picked up insects on the snow. Probably at cold night many insects were frozen on the snow because later I observed the Carrion Crows and the pair of Ravens picked up insects on snow too. But first birds were Choughs. By the binocular I saw that Choughs flew to the cracks of rocks. Probably there were them nests. All time Cuckoo's and some times Raven's crying were audible. In the alone little spruce tree there were the nest of Brown Accentor. The bird with the insect in the bill tried to fly by me into the spruce. Then the Wolves approached. One Wolf stood ahead of me and second one came behind. I began to photograph them and they left.

In the rocks the Water Pipits occurred. They many flew and sang. I thought that I will see a lot of birds in the snow and rocks near the glacier, but I didn't see it. Later I saw one another one Brown Accentor. But I couldn't to close to it and to Water Pipits because the snow resisted to do it. Downing to the spruce forest I saw singing Hume's Whitethroat hidden in the juniper bush. The song of Hume's Whitethroat reminds the songs of Buntings.


1. Raven (Corvus corax tibetanus)


2. Brown Accentor (Prunella fulvescens)


3. Wolf (Canis lupus)


4. Wolf (Canis lupus)

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