Bird News from Robin Newlin and Andreas Kim AK and I first stopped by Paldang, hoping for Steller’s Sea Eagle. We saw none, but found solace in at least 4 White-tailed Sea Eagles, one very handsomely flecked white on the … read more
Bird News from Robin Newlin A somewhat belated report posted from the USA (!) about an early morning visit to the north Han River at Paldang: observations are from a very limited viewing point just upriver from Paldang Station, made … read more
Bird News from Robin Newlin A return trip to Paldang found much of the same birds as last week’s visit; waterfowl numbers seemed somewhat reduced, or perhaps just more spread out (today I covered a smaller area). The pair of … read more
Bird News from Robin Newlin and Marco Della Seta. Our Saturday morning visit to the Han River at Paldang came a couple of days after the season’s first freeze, and the weather and the birds were winter quality: snow throughout … read more
Bird News from Robin Newlin A morning trip to Incheon’s Gyeyang Mountain: cold (frozen puddles) and scattered clouds with only slight warming as the day progressed. Highlights were a Naumann’s Thrush (first of the season for me), a single Rustic … read more
October 24, Gyeyangsan A return to our new favorite in-shore migrant spot yielded relatively few migrants, despite several hours of early morning rain (ending just before our arrival) and a change to northwesterlies and cool and clear. Highlights were: a … read more
Bird news from Robin Newlin, Marco Della Seta, Tim Edelsten A short addition to T.E.’s report: for the most part, to post additional pictures. MdS and I arrived in the morning: the birds were pretty much as described by T.E., … read more
October 9-10 Sapshi Island (off Daecheon) Robin Newlin with Im Kwang Wan, Jo Seong Sik, Kwon Chan Soo and, leading members of the Sa Sa I Bird Club, Kim Seok Min. From Sapshido looking toward the mainland at dawn Wind … read more
Baekryung Island, May 28-31 Bird News from Robin Newlin The following is a brief account of highlights. I had little sense of any significant day-by-day change in numbers of most species, so redundancy is avoided in favor of brevity. Many … read more
Quite a crowd of us went out— I met up with Mr. Im Kwang Wan at our usual pre-dawn Paris Baguette; we motored to Incheon’s boat terminal and met our frequent (not frequent enough!) cohorts-in-birds Mr. Jo Seong Sik … read more