Tajikistan. Dushanbe. Botanical Garden.

People said there are three botanical gardens in Dushanbe. Today I visited one of them. Uncommon that there are a little of Mynahs but Chaffinches and Bramblings were present. Flocks of Hooded Crows and Rooks were fed near the big dumps. The first bird surprised and pleased me is Turkestan Tit. Tit led me to the big coniferous tree. In a crone of this tree I heard cheeping of Goldcrests. The next bird is Black-billed Magpie the common bird to inhabitants of Kazakhstan. There are not Magpies in Dushanbe but there are in a botanical garden. Magpies behave as wood not city birds, silent fly from a tree another one, on the long distance from the people.

I sat down under berry trees and waited the arrival of birds. I did not see such fruit-trees in the city, but in the botanical garden they are present. The first large good luck was arrived Eversmann's Redstart, a bright, very beautiful and quiet bird. Then I saw the large flight of blackbirds ate red berries. Chaffinches and even Black-throated Thrushes (first time I saw in Tajikistan) were fed also on the same tree except Blackbirds. While I sat and watched Thrushes, one Treecreeper flew there-here on the next trees. Then bird sat down on the same tree under I sat, and began to discover insects on branches directly above me. The Treecreeper didn't look such as our Treecreeper. Bird was more harmonious, spots on the back are blurred, and strips on the head seem more appreciable. It was the Bar-tailed Treecreeper.

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