I found another Kazakhstan entry from when I was there last May! Whoot! One of the coolest places that Swarovski took us to test out their new magnesium scopes was Charyn Canyon in Kazakhstan. It’s so huge that you can barely see the people in the distance in the above photo. I think the only [ Read More ]
You may recall that I took a little trip to Kazahstan in May…I still have a few posts left to write about this wonderful place. I don’t know if I will ever get back, but I hope I do. I have said it before and I will say it again, if you want to feel [ Read More ]
If you’d like to read the first part of this leg of our Kazakhstan trip, visit here. I think the Tien Shan Mountains were my favorite, check it out in the above photo–glaciers! One of the people in our group had been to this area before. He said that his group started earlier than ours [ Read More ]
I’ve blogged quite a bit about the first part of my amazing trip to Kazakhstan. We spent the first half on the Steppes (short grass prairie) and then flew from Astana to Almaty. I think my favorite part of the trip was exploring the Tien Shan Mountains near Almaty–beautiful, remote, rugged. Everywhere you went, even [ Read More ]
This is a brown dipper that we saw in Kazakhstan. Apart from being brown, it looked just like the American dipper we can see in the western US–right down to the white eyelids! More coming.
I’m sorting through my Kazakhstan mountain photos. I found this video of a mistle thrush. I have such a love for mistle thrushes. I’m not sure why, I think because I saw one in a field guide years ago and it tripped my trigger that there was a large grayish robin out there with a [ Read More ]
I found some phalarope photos that I had forgotten about. These are some red-necked phalaropes that we saw on the Steppes in Kazakhstan. When you are learning shorebirds, phalaropes are ones that can be easy to distinguish from the others, they have a unique shape, can be quite colorful and they are just plain fun [ Read More ]
Now that spring migration has settled down a bit, I can talk more about Kazakhstan. I took out a group this weekend for some birding and one asked, “Why did you go to Kazakhstan?” There were several reasons, the biggest was that I have always wanted to go ever since I read about the country [ Read More ]
This post maybe TMI for some people. Take note of the title and if that is not your favorite subject or something you don’t like imagine other people doing, I would recommend you stop reading and maybe check out this cool post by my buddy Amber about some gannet rescue she did while on vacation [ Read More ]
Below is one of my favorite shots from Kazakhstan. It makes me wish I could paint. I would love to spend an entire day lost in creating this shot of a brown bird, with a stunning sky blue and rust patch on his throat, surrounded by golden reeds: It’s a bluethroat, these are actually possible [ Read More ]
