All day on Nerut Dagi, starting off around Pension Cesme before breakfast, to avoid the sun-rise tourist rush, then most of the rest of the morning around the summit after better views of Kurdish Red-tailed Wheatears. We then worked our way slowly down back to the Pension and finished the day in the orchards below it. Birds seen included 3 Alpine Swifts, 10 Shore larks, Tawny Pipit, 12(!!) White-throated Robins, 3 Red-tailed, 2 Finsch's and 5 Black-eared Wheatears, 4 Rock Thrushes, 6 Orphean and 4 Upcher's Warblers, 5 Pale Rock Sparrows, 12 Snowfinches, 2 Crimson-winged Finches and 10 Cinereous Buntings.
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Nemrut Dagi summit from above Pension Cesme |
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view from Nemrut Dagi east towards the Ataturk Baraji |
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view SE from Nemrut Dagi |
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the traditional view of the eastern terrace and the summit |
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stone heads on the western terrace |
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stone heads on the eastern terrace |
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more heads on the western terrace |
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the western terrace with Nick just about visible on the left |
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Red-tailed Wheatear at the summit |
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showing red tail |
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Red-tailed Wheatear half way back to Pension Cesme |
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showing the white in the outer tail feathers |
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a very smart wheatear indeed |
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flighty Snowfinch near the summit |
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young Snowfinch |
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Shore Lark at Nemrut Dagi |
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nest of Shore Lark |
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Rock Thrush or bowerbird? |
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Pale Rock Sparrow at Nemrut Dagi |
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and a very distinctive buzzy song too although it wasn't always easy to tell where it was coming from |
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Cinereous Bunting at Nemrut Dagi |
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they were common immediately above Pension Cesme |
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male Black-headed Bunting at Nemrut Dagi |
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female Black-headed Bunting at Nemrut Dagi |
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Black-eared Wheatear at Nemrut Dagi |
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White-throated Robin at Nemrut Dagi |
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a somewhat dishevelled individual |