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<\/a><\/p>\nCitrine Wagtail- Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n
Isabelline Shrike – Delanzadgad<\/p>\n Naumann’s Thrush – Dalanzadgad<\/p>\n Crested Lark – Dalanzadgad<\/p>\n Crested Lark preening and showing the tail pattern nicely- Dalanzadgad<\/p>\n Long-toed Stint – Dalanzadgad<\/p>\n Long-toed Stint – Dalanzadgad<\/p>\n The habitat outside our guest house at Dalanzadgad, the bushes to the right supported many passerines while the stream links to a reservoir to the left and out of few and was excellent for waders and wildfowl.<\/p>\n Heading towards the Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Heading into the Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n The Heading into the Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Gurvan Saikhan National Parkis a spectacular mountainous park dominated by barren peaks and lightly vegetated valleys. The park was established in 1993 and extends to nearly 27,000 square kilometres. It is the largest national park in Mongolia, stretching 380 km from east to west and 80 km from north to south. The park is named for the Gurvan Saikhan Mountains in which it is located.<\/p>\n A short way into the park a quick stop and a walk produced our first Mongolian Accentor, Brown Accentor and a White\u2019s Thrush. We headed to the parking spot at Yolyn Am and walked the valley to an area known as \u201cVulture\u2019s Bedroom\u2019. This produced Taiga Flycatcher, Little Bunting, Brown Accentor, Lammergeier, Koslov\u2019s Accentor, Tree Pipit, Northern Wheatear, Isabelline Wheatear, White\u2019s Thrush, Guldenstadt\u2019s Redstart, Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch and a stunning Wallcreeper.<\/p>\n It was evident that the valley supported good numbers of migrants and we were amazed at how these species must migrant from south-east Asia, perhaps over the Himalayas, then across the vast and hostile Gobi Desert to find themselves in a remote mountain valley with an onward journey into Russia yet to face.<\/p>\n We headed to our campsite for lunch set within a beautiful mountain valley and ate a rather large lunch of a dish known as Mimosa which basically consisted of egg and salad followed by rice and meat.<\/p>\n Isabelline Wheatear was common with many birds on territory and performing a rather spectacular and noisy display flight – Gurvan Saikhan National Park.<\/p>\n Isabelline Wheatear – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Mongolian Accentor, like a drab Dunnock but confined to Mongolia as a breeding species – Gurvan Saikhan National Park.<\/p>\n Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n White-winged Snowfinch -Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n White-winged Snowfinch – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Tree Pipit- Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Red-cheeked Ground Squirrel – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Lammergeier – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Brown Accentor – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Mongolian Accentor – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Mongolian Accentor – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Spot the Wallcreeper – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Golden Eagle- Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Mongolian Pit ViperGloydius halys -Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park.<\/p>\n Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Photographing Mongolian Accentor on the mountain side Mongolian Accentor – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park.<\/p>\n Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Little Bunting – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Little Bunting – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Little Bunting – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Grey Wagtail – Yolyn Am Valley, Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Back out into the park we headed down a valley to an area known as the Ice Cave seeing Upland Buzzard and Saker Falcon at the nest, White\u2019s Thrush and Mongolian Finch.<\/p>\n Dinner at our campsite was followed by a night drive where we saw little but for Red Fox and a rather spectacular Mongolian Five-toed Gerboa. Bed was at 12:00 and I slept okay in the fairly warm conditions.<\/p>\n Barry eating his Mimosa<\/p>\n Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Isabelline Wheatear – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Isabelline Wheatear – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Pallas’s Pica – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Tobias insisted that I took this tractor with me to Mongolia and he wanted me to take pictures of it with the birds I saw, we has some fun with this Pica!<\/p>\n Upland Buzzard, its nest seemingly stuck to the cliff face – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Upland Buzzard – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Upland Buzzard – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Upland Buzzard – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Black Vulture – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Black Vulture – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Driving through the Gurvan Saikhan National Park, the road narrowing<\/p>\n Driving through the Gurvan Saikhan National Park, the road narrowing<\/p>\n Driving through the Gurvan Saikhan National Park, the end of the road<\/p>\n Frozen River Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Golden Eagle – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Little Bunting – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Saker on nest – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n White’s Thrush, seeing this species on barren slopes makes one realise that they are not so out of place in a Geo on Fair Isle – Gurvan Saikhan National Park.<\/p>\n White’s Thursh – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Lammergeier – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Our campsite in Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Mine was the Wallcreeper tent<\/p>\n Our campsite – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n Long-eared Jerboa – Gurvan Saikhan National Park<\/p>\n <\/p>\n