Cosmostation. Big Almaty Lake.

The Water Pipits dominated directly in Cosmostation area and in stony beds in south from it, especially many Pipits were on two small lakes. Above the Cosmostation under the Big Almaty Peak Hodgson's Rosefinches were in majority again. The first time in these places I watched Alpine Accentor and fledgling of Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush. Yellow-billed and Red-billed Choughs rounded in the sky. Himalayan Snowcocks were observed but from a far, two flocks flew down from the opposite slope to the green part of the gorge. We waited their climbing but they probably moved to another direction. Saw soaring Himalayan Vulture and some later the Golden Eagle. We descended by the rocks. In addition to noted Water Pipits we watched another fledgling of Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Stonechats, some Himalayan Accentors, Brown Accentors feeding their fledglings, the Stoats and the Grey Marmots.

In juniper thickets about the Observatory a lot of Black-throated Accentors, White-browed Tit-Warblers, the strange bird (later identified as fledgling of Black Redstart), and the curious Stoat who moved between the stones directly underfoot.

1. Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta)

2. Hodgson's Rosefinch (Leucosticte nemoricola)

3. Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris rufilata)

4. Himalayan Vulture (Gyps himalayensis)

5. Himalayan Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos daphanea)

6. Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)

7. Yellow-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus)

8. Brown Accentor (Prunella fulvescens)

9. Black-throated Accentor (Prunella atrogularis huttoni)

10. Greenish Warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides viridanus)

11. White-browed Tit-Warbler (Leptopoecile sophiae)

12. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (Monticola saxatilis turkestanicus)