Almaty, Republic Square.

Overcast weather. Yesterday's snow melted away but the new snowfall began. Common birds: Hooded Crows, Rooks, Magpies, a lot of Blackbirds, Mynahs, very active Great Tits; not so many Chaffinches, Bramblings and House Sparrows. The pair of Collared Doves arrived and fed under the thuja. Also I noticed the Greenfinches. In the dark-grey sky the Crows were chasing the raptor looked like Buzzard by the silhouette. Uncommon birds: European Robin; I specially searched it, three times it flashed in my eyes, but I didn't shoot it. Lesser Whitethroats; I saw them in three places, not less than five birds. They fed like all other birds the berries and seeds of thuja. And they hid, like all other birds in the spruce-trees.

1. European Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris turkestanicus)

2. Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca)