Urban Birding. Almaty. Republic Square.

The weather was sunny more or less all the time, so almost all the snow was melt. Strange, but the different species of birds were feeding the same dogwood berries in different parts of the Square. Mynas and Hooded Crows do it at one point, Bramblings and Blackbirds in another one, Great Tits in the third one, without mutual birds. But some dogwood trees are full of berries, not one bird were eating them. Perhaps, dogwood berries like apples could be more or less tasty. Crows and Mynas ate dogwood berries with loud sounds, because both of these birds are very noisy. After they will finish to eat the berries I see what White-winged Grosbeak will feed in February-March. By the way I saw flock of Great Tits in dogwood trees but I am not sure that they eat berries, probably they eat the last insects. Of more or less rare birds I watched and took photos of Lesser Whitethroat (were feeding in thuja, means it extended the food diversity) and two European Robins (one feeding under the spruce tree, another in the green fence).

1. European Greenfinch | Carduelis chloris turkestanicus

2. Сornus sanguinea

3. European Robin | Erithacus rubecula tataricus

4. Lesser Whitethroat | Sylvia curruca

5. Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla

6. Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs