{"id":10531,"date":"2013-10-22T18:14:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T09:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=10531"},"modified":"2013-10-22T18:14:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T09:14:46","slug":"weyeon-island-october-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=10531","title":{"rendered":"Weyeon Island, October 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bird News from Robin Newlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just after dawn, the trip\u2019s highlight: an apparent \u201cred-throated\u201d\u00a0<b>Black-throated Thrush<\/b>, seen well in good light but unfortunately not photographed. Initial identification of bird in profile was a 1<sup>st<\/sup>-year male Black-throated Thrush: a sleek medium sized thrush with slate-grey back, pure white flanks (a little thin black streaking) and under parts, entirely cold-toned (slate, sooty grey and black) face pattern and apparent black throat with white spotting. When the bird turned slightly, a neat red throat was revealed, bordered in black. The bird vanished when I moved to get my camera and was not relocated &#8211; vegetation in the area is very dense. Comments (e.g. on hybrids) are welcome &#8211; I left my Clements-Hathaway in the USA!<\/p>\n<p>Not long afterwards, a\u00a0<b>Wryneck<\/b>\u00a0and a calling\u00a0<b>Pallas\u2019 Leaf Warbler<\/b>. 2\u00a0<b>Stejneger\u2019s Stonechats<\/b>. 2\u00a0<b>Radde\u2019s Warblers<\/b>\u00a0and a\u00a0<b>Dusky Warbler<\/b>. 1\u00a0<b>Oriental Honey Buzzard<\/b>. 10\u00a0<b>White-cheeked Starlings<\/b>. 2\u00a0<b>Eurasian<\/b>\u00a0<b>Kestrels<\/b>. A\u00a0<b>Peregrine Falcon<\/b>\u00a0carrying an apparent pipit. 2\u00a0<b>Pale Thrushes<\/b>. 2\u00a0<b>Oriental Reed Warblers<\/b>. 2\u00a0<b>Little Buntings<\/b>and 1\u00a0<b>Yellow-breasted Bunting<\/b>. 1\u00a0<b>Yellow-throated Bunting<\/b>. 1 small flycatcher sp. 1\u00a0<b>Eastern Crowned Warbler<\/b>. 1\u00a0<b>Black Kite<\/b>\u00a0and 2 more\u00a0<b>Japanese Sparrowhawks<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>On the return boat, a crowd of gulls around a little boy and his father throwing\u00a0<i>sae-oo kang.\u00a0<\/i><b>Heuglin\u2019s<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Black-tailed Gulls<\/b>. Shrimp-in-a-cracker &#8211; what more could a gull want?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Black-tailed-Gull_RN.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[10531]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Black-tailed-Gull_RN-e1382433256810.jpg\" alt=\"Black-tailed-Gull_RN\" width=\"580\" height=\"422\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10527\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Robin Newlin Just after dawn, the trip\u2019s highlight: an apparent \u201cred-throated\u201d\u00a0Black-throated Thrush, seen well in good light but unfortunately not photographed. Initial identification of bird in profile was a 1st-year male Black-throated Thrush: a sleek medium sized &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=10531\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[657,656],"class_list":["post-10531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-weiyeon-do","tag-weyeon-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10532,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531\/revisions\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}