Batareika river. Ile-Alatau National Park.

Hot sunny day. I wanted find the nest of Eurasian Redstart, but the tree in which hole the Redstarts nested is absent, last hurricane broke many spruce and birch-trees. I tried find Redstarts in the birch forest but didn't find. In forest I saw Magpies with juveniles, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Blackbird, Great Tits, Common Rosefinches, and one Cuckoo camouflaged as dry branch. In gardens the Kestrel, Oriental Turtle Dove and Azure Tit were noted. Greenish Warblers sang actively, some times the songs of Great Tits and whistles of Common Rosefinches were hearable. On Batareika river I watched several White-bellied Dippers, one Brown Dipper, two Blue Whistling Thrushes, and Grey Wagtails with dim-colored and not-wary juveniles.

1. Male Common Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus)

2. Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)

3. Eurasian Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)

4. Female Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)

5. Juvenile Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)

6. Blue Whistling Thrush (Myophonus caeruleus)