Kimasar gorge. Ile-Alatau National Park.

Family tour to the mountains. Day was sunny in the morning, but snowy in afternoon. In the spruce I heard and watched Three-toed Woodpecker but didn’t make good photos because I careless came to the spruce. But it was impossible to do it otherwise because snow was knee-deep and the slope was arduous. Woodpecker flew out but I saw that it scraped the bark from the lower branches of the spruce. Also I watched about 20-25 White-winged Grosbeaks and 4-6 Red-rumped Rosefinches foraged in the barberry thickets, on burr, and on rowan-trees. On the mouth of the gorge I saw the large flock (about 150 birds) of the Red-fronted Serins. Other birds: 3 Carrion Crows, 1 Hooded Crow, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Mistle Thrush.

1. Red-mantled Rosefinch (Carpodacus rhodochlamys)

2. White-winged Grosbeak (Mycerobas carnipes)

3. Red-fronted Serin (Serinus pusillus)

4. Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus tianschanicus)