Old Square. There are many birds. Mainly Great Tits, Blackbirds and House Sparrows. They are also main singers. Blackbirds are most loud of all. Flying Greenfinches are noticeable. Once Cetti's Warbler glimpsed. Birds singing is all around. Found some birds by the singing. Little, inconspicuous Warblers sing in the thick foliage. Singing of Warblers is loud and audibly far, but it's very difficult to find its. Lesser Whitethroat sang in the thick branches of fir tree, but Booted and Barred Warblers in the branches of elms. Saw these birds and even it photographed some of them. But heard Nightingale and didn't find it. Still it saw the lonely female of Common Rosefinch. Certainly, it was desirable to see male, but bird was one only.Evening. Republic Square. One Turkestan Shrike flew. The pair of Lesser Grey Shrikes sits in the high birches. It's interesting that other species of shrikes at Republic Square gravitate to open places but Lesser Grey Shrikes are located in the high birches. Lesser [...... read more ]

Anyone killed Hoopoe. It is a pity. At one place met immediately three shrikes - pair of the Lesser Grey Shrikes and one Turkestan Shrike. [...... read more ]

There are much people in the Park. Above the trees two Hobbies flew. [...... read more ]

Republic Square. The weather is cold (+9), murky and damp after rain. Not good time to photographing. Saw pair of Blackbirds feeding already large nestling. One singing Long-tailed Shrike (the first in this spring). First Eurasian Hobby. Hobby flew above the square and sat to the roof of City's Hall (Akimat). After two-three minutes Sparrowhawk drove off it. Several seconds they lazy contended in air and dispersed to the different sides. Something like this season Nightjars migrate, but today I did not see them.Old Square. After dinner time the weather even more cooled. On the Old Square always there are many Blackbirds (actually very much). Twice heard Nightingales and saw one Long-tailed Shrike and one Cetti's Warbler. Cetti's Warbler jumped out from the bushes momently and conversely hid. [...... read more ]

Mynahs, Pigeons, House Sparrows, Greenfinches. The pair of Kestrels turns above the highest building. On early morning Red-rumped Swallows flew all around. About 9 am Swallow began to sat down to the wires, and some of them to the ground. Today I specially went to photograph Swallows, because there was a night rain and the puddles on asphalt was present. Swallows pick up mud from the puddles to nests buildings. But today I had so little time and didn't photograph Swallows on the ground. But I saw how Swallows picked up fuzz to the nests building. Among the swallows sitting on the wires there were not only Red-rumped but Barn Swallows too. [...... read more ]

Many Jackdaws, Azure and Turkestan Tits are audible and visible in the elms along the road. On the wires there are already many Rollers. Red-headed Buntings, Stonechats, Tree and Indian Sparrows sing in the shore bushes. One Hoopoe. One female Turkestan Shrike, several Cuckoos, one of which is brownish. Raptors, saw the male Shikra and the female Kestrel. In the sky the flock of tens Demoiselle Crane hovered. From time to time Grey Herons flew. On the water Common Sandpipers, Little Terns, Black-headed Gulls occured. There are many Carrion Crows. Large white-headed gulls was seen far away, but I could not examine them even into binoculars. Still large brown heron would fly, may be Bittern. [...... read more ]

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On the bushes and fir-trees near the Large Almaty river Greenish Warblers and Chiffchaffs sang. Sometimes heard Great Tits. Already Tree Pipits have flew to the mountains. Saw two singing and hovering males. One Kestrel. There are several Grey Wagtails and one White-bellied Dipper on the river. [...... read more ]