East Busan, July 9

Birds News from Nial Moores

A few hours in the field ahead of the first typhoon of the year to reach Kyushu (just across the Korean Strait) found little moving on the sea, with only c. 100 Black-tailed Gull “blogging” and 207 Streaked Shearwater counted in a single scan, most in two feeding rafts. In park and woodland, four families of Daurian Redstart, excellent views of White-backed Woodpecker and, finally, excellent views too of two Black Paradise Flycatcher – including a pair apparently food-carrying and mobbing passing Eurasian Jays.

Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus, © Nial Moores

Black Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata, © Nial Moores

Black Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata, © Nial Moores

Black Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata, © Nial Moores

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