Another surprise

below Songino Khairkhan Uul

text & photos by Abu

(© A. Buchheim)

During the excursion with the participants of the Birdwatchers’ Meeting which had been organized by the Mongolian Birdwatching Club, we came across a female Common Starling. This comprises the first winter record (let us know, if you know it better!) for the greater Ulaanbaatar region. Please excuse the bad quality of my record shots.

Otherwise we saw very few birds but this time I withstood the temptation to take more pictures of Bohemian Waxwing. Nevertheless I could not resist in taken shots of one of the three Arctic Redpolls we encountered and a male Mealy Redpoll also posed so nicely that I had to take a photograph of it.

Female Common Starling,

below Songino Khairkhan Uul, UB, Jan 2015

Female Common Starling,

below Songino Khairkhan Uul, UB, Jan 2015

Arctic Redpoll

below Songino Khairkhan Uul, UB, Jan 2015

Male (see the red on its cheek!) Mealy Redpoll

below Songino Khairkhan Uul, UB, Jan 2015