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Report of Birdwatching and Mountain climbing in Veresk
Birdwatching and Mountain climbing in Veresk
Program leader : Ehsan Talebi
Participants : Fereshteh Kazemi , Pedram Khalili , Parastoo Hedayatzadeh , Mitra Daneshvar , Sajad Zareian , Zahra Ghiami , Negar Mohammadi , Maryam Taslimi , Hoda Shaker
Report by : Ehsan Talebi
Translated by : Iman Karimi
Generally, Birdwatching seems a kind of passive activity but if you add a little mountaineering it will become more active and at the same time you do sport and have a lot of fun.
It’s been a while that the club wanted to change the type of trips. Finally, the first joint program which was included bird-watching and mountaineering has been held in Savadkooh, Mazandaran province.
Veresk area - Photo by Ehsan Talebi
The trip was lunched at 4:30 AM, on June the 13th with a mini-bus from Arjantine Sq.,Terhan to Veresk in Mazandaran. With respect to the altitude of Veresk and habitat of that location, there would be mountain and forest birds.
Veresk Bridge - Photo by Ehsan Talebi
The bird-watching has been started under the incredible Veresk Bridge which was built in 1940’s. The first specie that has been observed was the magnificent Wallcreeper, exactly under the Veresk Bridge. Fortunately it'd sat on a rock for a while and gave the opportunity to everyone to see this stunning bird.
Wallcreeper - Photo by Pedram Khalili
Our group is seeing the Wallcreeper - Photo by Ehsan Talebi
There were also some Common House Martins, after seeing them we’d continued our way on the bank of Veresk River until we found a good place for breakfast.
Photo by Hoda Shaker
After having breakfast, gradually we were entering into the forest which it might be a challenge to see birds. But hopefully, we heard the song of Euroasian Blackcap, Common Blackbird and … which was completely acceptable for identifying birds. Some of them were:
Euroasian Blackcap: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/243496261
Common Blackbird: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/243498621
Common Chiffchaff: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/243495721
And also we heard the call of Common Chaffinch which is somehow unaccustomed for many bird-watchers.
Common Chaffinch: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/243498821
Lesser Whitethroat - Photo by Parastoo Hedayatzadeh
Rock Bunting - photo by Pedram Khalili
Chukar Partridge - Photo by Pedram Khalili
We saw birds of prey as well.
Common Kestrel - Photo by Pedram Khalili
Golden Eagle - Photo by Maryam Taslimi
Golden Eagle - Photo by Maryam Taslimi
And some pretended to be one of the birds of prey such as Red-billed Chough!
Our group is watching birds - Photo by Ehsan Talebi
But one of the most attractive species was Hyrcanian (Caspian) Tit which only two of us , Parastoo Hedayatzadeh and Pedram Khalili , saw it.
Hyrcanian (Caspian) Tit - Photo by Pedram Khalili
Hyrcanian (Caspian) Tit - Photo by Pedram Khalili
In this one-day trip we walked more than I expected, around 14 kilometers! That was so good for health!
You can see the checklist of this trip here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S70461625
For Persian report please click here.
