Bird News from Spike Millington<\/p>\n
My first check of Gojan mudflats this winter, on a sunny but cold afternoon, saw an adult White-tailed Eagle<\/strong> putting up the Common Shelduck <\/strong>on the rising tide. A couple of hundred Mallard<\/strong> and Northern Shoveler <\/strong>stayed on the water. On the mud edge 100 Common Gulls <\/strong>rested with 20 Saunders’s Gull <\/strong>and 2 Relict <\/strong>Gulls<\/strong>. Waders were represented by a tight flock of 2-300 Eurasian Curlews<\/strong>, 30 Grey Plover <\/strong>and 50 Dunlin<\/strong>. Two additional White-tailed Eagles <\/strong>were squabbling on a small offshore sand spit. Over 100 Saunders’s Gull <\/strong>came in on the falling tide and 400 Common Shelducks <\/strong>foraged along the shoreline. Water levels on nearby Namdong Reservoir were very low and relatively few ducks remained, 200 Eurasian Teal<\/strong>, 100 Northern Pintail <\/strong>and 20 Spot-billed Ducks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bird News from Spike Millington My first check of Gojan mudflats this winter, on a sunny but cold afternoon, saw an adult White-tailed Eagle putting up the Common Shelduck on the rising tide. A couple of hundred Mallard and Northern … 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-14246","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\/14246","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=14246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14352,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246\/revisions\/14352"}],"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=14246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}