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 |
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