{"id":13848,"date":"2014-12-06T17:41:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T08:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=13848"},"modified":"2014-12-08T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T08:44:44","slug":"cheolwon-december-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=13848","title":{"rendered":"Cheolwon, December 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birding News from Robin Newlin<\/p>\n<p>A short trip to frigid Cheolwon: my first stay at the comfortable Durumi (Crane) Pension near the Togyo Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>On the Hantang River from a crane-watching hide: an attractive visa of ice-crusted river, reeds, mountains, rising full moon, <b>Red-crowned<\/b> and <b>White-naped Cranes<\/b>, <b>Common Mergansers<\/b>, <b>Azure-winged Magpies<\/b>, <b>Vinous-throated Parrotbills<\/b> and <b>Meadow<\/b> and <b>Yellow-throated Buntings<\/b>. Also in the area: a <b>Bull-headed Shrike<\/b>, a (heard) <b>Long-tailed Rosefinch<\/b>, some (also only heard) <b>Long-tailed Tits<\/b>, a <b>Far Eastern Buzzard<\/b>, several <b>Cinereous Vultures,<\/b> thousands of <b>White-fronted Geese,<\/b> a few <b>Whooper Swans,<\/b> and a few calling <b>Daurian Redstarts<\/b> and <b>Far-Eastern Skylarks<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2014\/12\/Red-crowned-Crane_RN-1.jpg\" title=\"Red-crowned Crane\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imgtxt\"><b>Red-crowned Crane<\/b> <i>Grus japonensis<\/i>, &#169; Robin Newlin<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2014\/12\/Red-crowned-Crane_RN-2.jpg\" title=\"Red-crowned Crane\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imgtxt\"><b>Red-crowned Crane<\/b> <i>Grus japonensis<\/i>, &#169; Robin Newlin<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2014\/12\/White-naped-Crane_RN.jpg\" title=\"White-naped Crane\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imgtxt\"><b>White-naped Crane<\/b> <i>Grus vipio<\/i>, &#169; Robin Newlin<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birding News from Robin Newlin A short trip to frigid Cheolwon: my first stay at the comfortable Durumi (Crane) Pension near the Togyo Reservoir. On the Hantang River from a crane-watching hide: an attractive visa of ice-crusted river, reeds, mountains, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=13848\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":13852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13848","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\/13848","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13850,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions\/13850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}