Bird News from Subhojit Chakladar (with Minseon Zee) A quick day trip to Deokjeok to check the status of migration. It rained most of the time (rather lightly). Only the hiking trail from the harbor to the school was covered … read more
Birds News from Jason Loghry with Matt Poll and Heloise Stankard After another night of heavy rain, we headed back to Taejongdae to spend a couple of hours looking for migrants. There were still no signs of the thrush species … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores, Jason Loghry, Matt Poll and Heloise Stankard After heavy overnight rain, a clear mild morning, though with strong northeasterly winds, before more heavy rain moved in again in the afternoon. Early on, the few remaining … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores After overnight rain, generally overcast, with the wind swinging from light south-westerly to moderate or strong north-easterly and very dark skies. In a few hours in the field, much evidence that spring migration is now … read more
Bird News from Spike Millington and Eugene Cheah Nine staff from the EAAFP Secretariat Office took a day off school, meeting up with Cho Heungsang from Seosan Birdland, to visit Cheonsu Bay on 3 April, hoping to see Hooded Cranes before … read more
Nial Moores with Team Thai On our last day together, we headed to a well-known area of forest near Seoul to see if we could find any Hazel Grouse, a widespread, stunningly-patterned but often hard-to-see species here. With excellent directions … read more
Nial Moores with Team Thai On 15th, a late afternoon visit under warm spring sunshine to the now highly-disturbed lagoon on the north side of Yeongjong with Team Thai (see: https://www.birdskoreablog.org/?p=14788) found disappointingly small numbers of duck (e.g. no Falcated … read more
Nial Moores with Team Thai A highly enjoyable week of late winter / early spring birding in mostly mild and bright weather, with the six members of “Team Thai” (Kamol Komolphalin, Patcharee Komolphalin, Jindarat Visetruangrote, Penchun Iamchum, Pornkasem Kantamara and … read more
Bird News from Matt Poll My first trip to Suncheon Bay was in the chilly early morning gloom of February 16th, with several visiting English birders. We initially spent a couple of hours in the quiet reedy area towards the … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores and Jason Loghry This was an exceptional day of late winter / early spring birding in light northerlies and bright light, with a record-breaking number of loons (made all the better by the absence of … read more