{"id":12398,"date":"2014-04-27T22:09:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=12398"},"modified":"2014-04-28T22:11:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:11:12","slug":"busan-april-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=12398","title":{"rendered":"Busan,  April 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bird News from Jason Loghry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With very little wind, no sign of showers, and a high of 23\u00b0C in the daily forecast, I was a little reluctant to get out birding on a busy weekend. Still, I couldn&#8217;t resist and ventured to the Nakdong. Before I could get to my usual walking path, <strong>Far Eastern Cisticola<\/strong> (19) could already be heard singing. They appeared to be in every direction and the reeds were bustling with their song and display. Highlights of the morning include <strong>Pallas&#8217;s Reed Bunting<\/strong> (15), <strong>Penduline Tit<\/strong> (14), and <strong>Stejneger&#8217;s Stonechat<\/strong> (3). At a small wetland area there were <strong>Eurasian Spoonbill<\/strong> (1), <strong>Common Snipe<\/strong> (3), <strong>Spot-billed Duck<\/strong> (11), <strong>Eurasian Wigeon<\/strong> (3), and a beautiful male <strong>Garganey<\/strong> (1). <\/p>\n<p>Continuing on my walk, I heard some very aggressive-sounding snarls and hissing coming from the reeds. As I stopped to listen, two <strong>Amur Leopard Cats<\/strong> suddenly raced across the dusty path into the nearby bush. Seconds later, two <strong>Japanese Quail<\/strong> darted in the opposite direction, with one of the cats jumping mid-air after them, with its claws out grasping for a kill. Luckily, the quail escaped unharmed. I waited around quietly to see if there would be any more action, but both cat and quail disappeared into the reeds. I counted five <strong>Japanese Quail<\/strong> for the day. <\/p>\n<p>I moved on to Myeongji tidal flat and found the tide to be slowly returning. In the distance, I observed <strong>Dunlin<\/strong> (300+), <strong>Mongolian Plover<\/strong> (12), <strong>Kentish Plover<\/strong> (5), <strong>Little-ringed Plover<\/strong> (11), <strong>Grey Plover<\/strong> (3), <strong>Sanderling<\/strong> (2), <strong>Common Greenshank<\/strong> (1), and a<strong> Black-faced Spoonbill<\/strong> (1).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Jason Loghry With very little wind, no sign of showers, and a high of 23\u00b0C in the daily forecast, I was a little reluctant to get out birding on a busy weekend. Still, I couldn&#8217;t resist and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=12398\">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":[713,606],"class_list":["post-12398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-myeongji","tag-nakdong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398","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=12398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12409,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions\/12409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}