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Prohodnoe gorge.

2013-08-04| Askar Isabekov

During the day weather was mostly cloudy with a little rain in lunch-time. The family trip to the Prohodnoe gorge. The trail mostly passes in the high-grass meadows (in which I several times heard Common Whitethroats) crossed by spruce-forests. I saw Nutcrackers, Greenish Warblers, Blue Whistling Thrush and twice Brown Dippers near the river. Some time I watched Sparrowhawks in the sky and Hobbies hunting among the spruce-trees. Some years ago in the spruce forest I saw Sparrowhawk but didn’t take photo of it. Today Sparrowhawk came to me itself and waited when I photographed it. Birds were a bit but I never seen many birds in Prohodnoe gorge.

1. Common Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus

2. Greenish Warbler | Phylloscopus trochiloides

3. Spotted Nutcracker | Nucifraga caryocatactes

4. Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus

5. Brown Dipper | Cinclus pallasii


#	species	number

1	Common Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)	2

2	Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo)	2

3	Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)	2

4	Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)	2

5	Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)	3

6	Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii)	2

7	Common Whitethroat (Sylvia communis)	3

8	Greenish Warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides)	6-7

9	Blue Whistling Thrush (Myophonus caeruleus)	1

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