birding in Shahrud, episod 1

Because I love Shahrud and live in Tehran, I decided to make 2 series, birding in Tehran and birding in Shahrud. I want to just focus on them right now but some day, finally I will get over them, so wait for that day :-)

Through episode 1 to episode who knows how many, I will picture birds of Shahrud. now let start with pictures from a birding trip from around October to November:

Jay

What I talk about when I talk about Shahrud

I love this title and use it a lot :-)

Shahrud is my favorite city. I currently live in Tehran, I'm not born in Shahrud and don't even have any relatives there but simply I love it, why?

Shahrud is a combination of my favorite tastes, you have a flat desert then suddenly it ends to a mountain and then after a while dry weather changes to more humid one, and along with that every thing changes. all of this in a 40 min car-drive from city. I prayed it in this post in my old blog, too (an overwhelming love, huh?)

in this post, I want to show my darling through its nature, birds and butterflies. come with me:

let start with desert

Birdwatching (an entr'acte)

winter is coming :-( it's a sad news for me but all my friends are into birdwatching and they love autumn and specially winter. so, I decided to cover some of their birdwatching by this blog (they're a little lazy and not blogging yet).

well, I said (in this post) that we went to Semnan (a province in east of Tehran). we visited Parvar protected area, a valley near Damghan and Damghan Cheshme Ali, all in Semnan province.

and here is birding outcome of my friend Ehsan Talebi (he is a tour leader and specially talented in birding and hiking):

Pied wheatear