This post shows some birds (and scenery) from a 2 week trip (11-24 Sept of this year). Above is a Black-winged Pratincole.
Sunrise over Baku on my first day.
Sunrise over the Caspian Sea, 100 km North of Baku.
A view of the coastline, from the mountains at Corbustan, approx 50 km S from Baku.
A typical coastal landscape, with the oil legacy clearly evident.
Coastal bushes c 100 km North of Baku where I spent most of the trip, looking for migrants.
My campsite in the Caucasus.
A rather wonderful sediment-laden river, Caucasus
Lammergeier and Wallcreeper territory in the Caucasus
Red-breasted Fly - an extremely common migrant
Red-backed Shrike; another common migrant
White Wagtail; note the extensively white greater coverts of the
albas in this area.
Rock Sparrow
The Caucasus race of Water Pipit (
coutellii) - a really sandy buffy taxon that took me by surprise
Another example.
Horned Lark - rather tatty at this time of year.
Wallcreeper
The same bird
And again.
Long-legged Buzzard
The same bird - the tail pattern gives it away as a juv
Pied Wheatear
A rather stunning Yellow Wagtail. As always, autumn birds provided headaches; I need to do some desk research when time permits, to see if this can be identified.
Ditto.
Blue Cheeked Bee-eater.
Lesser Kestrel
Roller
Rose-coloured Starling
Lesser Whitethroat
Black Redstart. More work needs doing on these; textbooks suggest
ochoros should occur in Caucasus but this looks more like (but perhaps not a perfect) a
semirufous to my eye.
Another.
The same individual as above
The stonechats were some of the more interesting and troublesome birds. I will add a post dedicated to these later, but this bird most resembled
variagatus due to the extensive white in the bases of the outer feathers which was clearly visible in flight or when it tail-flicked.
Pallid Harrier
Pallid Harrier
This post shows some birds (and scenery) from a 2 week trip (11-24 Sept of this year). Above is a Black-winged Pratincole.
Sunrise over Baku on my first day.
Sunrise over the Caspian Sea, 100 km North of Baku. 
A view of the coastline, from the mountains at Corbustan, approx 50 km S from Baku.
A typical coastal landscape, with the oil legacy clearly evident.
Coastal bushes c 100 km North of Baku where I spent most of the trip, looking for migrants.
My campsite in the Caucasus.
A rather wonderful sediment-laden river, Caucasus
Lammergeier and Wallcreeper territory in the Caucasus
Red-breasted Fly - an extremely common migrant
Red-backed Shrike; another common migrant
White Wagtail; note the extensively white greater coverts of the albas in this area.
Rock Sparrow
The Caucasus race of Water Pipit (coutellii) - a really sandy buffy taxon that took me by surprise
Another example.
Horned Lark - rather tatty at this time of year. 
Wallcreeper
The same bird
And again.
Long-legged Buzzard
The same bird - the tail pattern gives it away as a juv
Pied Wheatear
A rather stunning Yellow Wagtail. As always, autumn birds provided headaches; I need to do some desk research when time permits, to see if this can be identified.
Ditto.
Blue Cheeked Bee-eater.
Lesser Kestrel
Roller
Rose-coloured Starling
Lesser Whitethroat
Black Redstart. More work needs doing on these; textbooks suggest ochoros should occur in Caucasus but this looks more like (but perhaps not a perfect) a semirufous to my eye.
Another.
The same individual as above 
The stonechats were some of the more interesting and troublesome birds. I will add a post dedicated to these later, but this bird most resembled variagatus due to the extensive white in the bases of the outer feathers which was clearly visible in flight or when it tail-flicked.
Pallid Harrier
Pallid Harrier
1 comment:
Great stuff Gibb, look forward to seeing more... Best regards, Mike
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