On the fourth day in Kazakhstan I awoke early and, in the drizzlymist, once again birded the grounds of the hotel in Almaty. The...
It may not feel like summer during this chilly Northeast June but the birds know what time it is. Avians everywhere are doing it,...
Part of my meticulously crafted Father’s Day celebration (after the rain-lashed finale of an amazing Rochester Jazz Festival) was a spare hour of birding...
After leaving Big Almaty Lake, the site of our Ibisbill dip, we continued uphill to the Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory where lunch was distributed...
This past Saturday, when I was supposed to be upstate spending time with my family, an unfortunate chain of events led to Daisy and...
Big Almaty Lake, about thirty kilometers south of the city of Almaty, is a glacial-fed lake situated at just over 2,500 meters in the...
After the pre-breakfast birding whetted my appetite for some seriously good birds I couldn’t wait to get up into the the snow-capped Tien Shan...
After our two days birding the flat lands near Astana we flew to Almaty late at night and made our way to the Hotel...
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