Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea, Birds Korea)
Taejongdae Park is a landmark in Western Busan, with a long, royal history, and quite popular with visitors and the usual noise related to them. It is also a key birding site in Busan.
Not too many species, and surprisingly (for me) completely empty sea, beside a flock of Black-tailed Gulls and a single Gray Heron at the rocks West of the park. Not a single duck or cormorant. Maybe, because there were many fishermen? Or is it usual at this time of the year, are they all on breeding sites in the North?
Inside the park, lots and lots of Large-billed crows, and an assortment of small passerines like Warbling White-eyes, Great tits, Long-tailed Tits, a single Yellow-bellied tit, Blue-and-white flycatcher, Yellow-throated Bunting, a few thrushes, two Chinese (Yellow-billed) Grosbeaks and on the rocks everywhere Blue Rock Thrushes. In the rocks a Peregrine falcon, obviously breeding nearby.
Still, it was a pleasant morning walk.
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Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius 바다직박구리 Male (© Bernhard Seliger)
Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius 바다직박구리 Male (© Bernhard Seliger)
Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus 오목눈이 (© Bernhard Seliger)
Chinese Grosbeak Eophona migratoria 밀화부리 (© Bernhard Seliger)
Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus 동박새 (© Bernhard Seliger)
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus 매 (© Bernhard Seliger)
Peregrine falcons and Common Kestrel – not seen this time – seem to be landmarks at the rocky coast of Taejongdae park (© Bernhard Seliger)