Bird news from Spike Millington<\/p>\n
A good variety of shorebirds on Gojan mudflats at the weekend, and reasonable tides to see them,. Highlights were 3 Asian<\/strong> Dowitchers<\/strong> on 16 May, with at least one the next day and a Nordmann’s Greenshank<\/strong> on 18th, the latter initially roosting with Grey Plovers before flying out to the mudflats and catching a lugworm. No Spoon-billed Sandpiper<\/strong> among the 200 Red-necked Stints<\/strong>, but I did catch up with one on an early morning trip to Yubu-do on 21st. Other shorebirds included 1,000 Dunlin<\/strong>, 200 each of Great Knot<\/strong> and Bar-tailed Godwits<\/strong> (both species moving on now), 30 Black-tailed Godwits<\/strong> (looking altogether more regal than their pot-bellied cousins), 25 Broad-billed Sandpipers<\/strong>, 200 Whimbrel<\/strong>, 30 Eastern Curlew<\/strong>, 200 Grey Plovers<\/strong>, 60 Mongolian Plovers<\/strong> and a few Terek Sandpipers<\/strong> and Ruddy Turnstones<\/strong>. Five Curlew Sandpipers<\/strong>, three Red Knots<\/strong> and single Grey-tailed Tattler<\/strong> were more unusual visitors. In the evening of the 18th, 500 Saunders’s Gull<\/strong> were resting on the mudflats, my highest ever count here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bird news from Spike Millington A good variety of shorebirds on Gojan mudflats at the weekend, and reasonable tides to see them,. Highlights were 3 Asian Dowitchers on 16 May, with at least one the next day and a Nordmann’s … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":12914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12778,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions\/12778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}