{"id":11218,"date":"2013-12-16T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=11218"},"modified":"2013-12-19T16:56:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T07:56:31","slug":"eungbong-december-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=11218","title":{"rendered":"Eungbong, December 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bird News from Robin Newlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I made an afternoon visit to the stream at Eungbong, just above the confluence with the Han River. Weather was cool and cloudy. For once, it was good to be at some distance from the birds \u2014 the old walkway has been fenced off, and pedestrians and cyclists are farther away from the water. Even though some sort of construction is going on in parts of this new buffer zone, the number of birds on the water was impressive \u2014 a conservative 600\u00a0<b>Common Pochards<\/b>, about 100\u00a0<b>Tufted Ducks<\/b>\u00a0(many more suspected far off on the Han), c. 50\u00a0<b>Eastern Spot-billed Ducks<\/b>, c. 25<b>Northern Pintails<\/b>, scattered\u00a0<b>Gadwalls<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Mallards<\/b>, 8\u00a0<b>Ruddy Shelducks<\/b>, and a very encouraging 70+\u00a0<b>Mandarin Ducks<\/b>.\u00a0<b>White Wagtails<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Vinous-throated Parrotbills\u00a0<\/b>and a\u00a0<b>Daurian Redstart<\/b>\u00a0called in the background.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Common-Pochard_RN.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11218]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Common-Pochard_RN-e1387439481817.jpg\" alt=\"Common-Pochard_RN\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11223\" \/><\/a><b>Common Pochard<\/b>\u00a0<i>Aythya ferina<\/i>, \u00a9 Robin Newlin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ruddy-Shelduck_RN-1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11218]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ruddy-Shelduck_RN-1-e1387439590523.jpg\" alt=\"Ruddy-Shelduck_RN-1\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11226\" \/><\/a><b>Ruddy Shelduck<\/b>\u00a0<i>Tadorna ferruginea<\/i>, \u00a9 Robin Newlin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ruddy-Shelduck_RN-2.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11218]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ruddy-Shelduck_RN-2-e1387439531606.jpg\" alt=\"Ruddy-Shelduck_RN-2\" width=\"580\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11224\" \/><\/a><b>Ruddy Shelduck<\/b>\u00a0<i>Tadorna ferruginea<\/i>, \u00a9 Robin Newlin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mandarin-Duck_RN-1-e1387439660918.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11218]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mandarin-Duck_RN-1-e1387439660918.jpg\" alt=\"Mandarin-Duck_RN-1\" width=\"580\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11227\" \/><\/a><b>Mandarin Duck<\/b>\u00a0<i>Aix galericulata<\/i>, \u00a9 Robin Newlin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mandarin-Duck_RN-2.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11218]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mandarin-Duck_RN-2-e1387439719250.jpg\" alt=\"Mandarin-Duck_RN-2\" width=\"580\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11228\" \/><\/a><b>Ruddy Shelduck<\/b>\u00a0<i>Tadorna ferruginea<\/i>\u00a0left,\u00a0<b>Mandarin Duck<\/b>\u00a0<i>Aix galericulata<\/i>\u00a0center,\u00a0<b>Northern Pintail<\/b>\u00a0<i>Anas acuta<\/i>\u00a0right, \u00a9 Robin Newlin<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Robin Newlin I made an afternoon visit to the stream at Eungbong, just above the confluence with the Han River. Weather was cool and cloudy. For once, it was good to be at some distance from the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=11218\">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":[676],"class_list":["post-11218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-eungbong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218","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=11218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11230,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions\/11230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}