An early morning walk round the camp with Tree Sparrows and Desert Wheatear before an 8.00 o’clock breakfast in the restaurant with cereal, orange slices, cakes, pancakes, fried eggs and bacon and tea and coffee as well as different kinds of bread with Jam, honey, and condensed milk.
We packed up and then drove out to the Saxaul Forest area where we soon found Saxaul Sparrows nesting in some crumbling walls. One of the more striking sparrows.
We then drove through the Steppes, stopping for a single-file walk towards a Wild Ass. These Wild Asses are a different sub-species from the ones we saw in Gujerat but looked quite similar. We were approaching carefully when a camel walked the other way, crashing the photos. Across the stony ground were lots of Toad-headed Agama sps and various cryptically coloured crickets.
We drove through the dunes back to Camp 2 for lunch. On the way we stopped at a Henderson Ground Jay hotspot where we walked about but only saw a Steppe Grey Shrike until we were driving off when a pair were spotted in the distance, we drove round to get closer but they moved quickly over the ridge and disappeared.
We arrived back at Base Camp 2 for lunch and then our gear was taken up to the new rock shelter areas where the tents had been set up. Leaving our un-needed gear there we walked up to the new shelter around 4.00pm. The walk up was a great deal less steep and these shelters had more room, were less angled and with bigger holes to peer through, although there still wasn’t a lot of leg room to stretch out. We spent the afternoon and evening scanning and checking the skyline and mountainsides, watching Ravens, Ibex and Crag Martins until around 9.00pm before we walked carefully back to the tents for the night.
We packed up and then drove out to the Saxaul Forest area where we soon found Saxaul Sparrows nesting in some crumbling walls. One of the more striking sparrows.
We then drove through the Steppes, stopping for a single-file walk towards a Wild Ass. These Wild Asses are a different sub-species from the ones we saw in Gujerat but looked quite similar. We were approaching carefully when a camel walked the other way, crashing the photos. Across the stony ground were lots of Toad-headed Agama sps and various cryptically coloured crickets.
We drove through the dunes back to Camp 2 for lunch. On the way we stopped at a Henderson Ground Jay hotspot where we walked about but only saw a Steppe Grey Shrike until we were driving off when a pair were spotted in the distance, we drove round to get closer but they moved quickly over the ridge and disappeared.
We arrived back at Base Camp 2 for lunch and then our gear was taken up to the new rock shelter areas where the tents had been set up. Leaving our un-needed gear there we walked up to the new shelter around 4.00pm. The walk up was a great deal less steep and these shelters had more room, were less angled and with bigger holes to peer through, although there still wasn’t a lot of leg room to stretch out. We spent the afternoon and evening scanning and checking the skyline and mountainsides, watching Ravens, Ibex and Crag Martins until around 9.00pm before we walked carefully back to the tents for the night.
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