Blackbird singing in the dead of night, Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you were only waiting for this...

As an American birder I don’t get to see wagtails very often at all.  In fact, the only time I have been so fortunate...

There is so much more to tell about the Kazakhstan trip but I am very glad that I have finally managed to make it...

So back to before the previous Kazakhstan post we go, just to confuse the heck out of you and make it impossible to keep...

After our relatively short trip from Astana to the Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve made long by we birders insisting that we stop for every...

After our nice drive across the steppe from Astana we arrived at the location where we would eat lunch: the not-yet-opened Korgalzhyn State Nature...

After a filling breakfast our motley crew was issued the Swarovski scopes and tripods that would be ours to use for the next several...

Our flight from Frankfurt to Astana landed at about 11 PM local time on Monday, May 11.  Having spent a mere twenty-four hours in...