Hi All
Son Danny and I visited Gilgit in December 1977 or 1978. We were driving
from Tehran to India but they wouldn't allow our car in because we had
been given the wrong papers for it. So we had what turned out to be an
excellent holiday in Pakistan. We flew to Gilgit from Rawalpindi, a
flight with spectacular views of the Karakoram peaks, where we booked
into a local hotel. Our room overlooked a courtyard with an east facing
dirt brick wall which, as the son rose and warmed it, became covered
with over 200 Wallcreepers. To get round and about, we hired a car and
driver and did what birding we could find around town, which wasn't
much. An exception was watching a Little Forktail walking and feeding
underwater in a mountain creek. Rather more successfully, we drove half
way up the road to Hunza; mostly vegetation free but well stacked with
birds in the occasional copses on the riverside. All record, photos, and
notes elating to this trip went, along with everything else in the Black
Saturday bushfires of 2009 and, sadly, I don't have much memory left.
Basically however, it wasn't a very productive excursion. Birding was
much better around Murree, the only Raj hill station in Pakistan, and
the forests of the North West Frontier province, which were then
accessible by road from Rawalpindi. I suspect this is not now the case
for obvious reasons, which is sad.
Cheers,
Ken Rogers
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