{"id":16693,"date":"2015-09-26T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T04:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=16693"},"modified":"2015-09-26T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T04:27:56","slug":"ulsan-september-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=16693","title":{"rendered":"Ulsan, September 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Johan Kok<\/p>\n

On Sunday 21 September\u00a02015 I went for a long overdue\u00a0walk\u00a0along the Taehwa river in Ulsan.\u00a0 The first stop was the area where the Oriental Stork<\/strong> had been seen.\u00a0 It was still present in the same area\u00a0walking around\u00a0in the shallows next to a sand bank full of Black-headed Gulls<\/strong>.\u00a0 Also in this area were some Black-tailed Gulls<\/strong>, Grey Heron<\/strong>, Great Egret<\/strong>, Little Egret<\/strong>, Spot-billed Duck<\/strong> and Great Cormorant<\/strong>.\u00a0 In the\u00a0nearby reeds I spotted a splash of colour which turned out to be a\u00a0Common Kingfisher<\/strong>.\u00a0 One of several seen along the river during the\u00a0day.<\/p>\n

Also on the sand bank were two\u00a0mysterious plump ducks that I could not identify.\u00a0\u00a0They\u00a0were\u00a0later confirmed to be feral or domestic hybrid types via photos.\u00a0 From this area I moved upriver and further into the\u00a0city where the river narrows with more reeds, little islands and tree cover.\u00a0 Along this section of the river I picked up\u00a0Common Moorhen<\/strong>, Eurasian Magpie<\/strong>, Brown-eared\u00a0Bulbul<\/strong>, Eurasian Tree Sparrow<\/strong>,\u00a0Vinous-throated Parrotbill<\/strong>, Eastern Great Tit<\/strong>, Eurasian Turtle Dove<\/strong>, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,\u00a0Japanese Wagtail<\/strong>\u00a0and brief glimpses of what\u00a0looked like Common Sandpiper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Beside the Oriental Stork the highlight of the day came on the walk back when a single Chinese\u00a0Pond Heron<\/strong> flew up from the bank and across the river.\u00a0 Even though a quiet day compared to the amount of waterfowl normally present in winter it was\u00a0still a rewarding walk.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"177A2218\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"177A2224\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Feral\/Domestic Geese with mostly Black-headed Gulls<\/strong> and Grey Heron<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a9 Johan Kok<\/p>\n

\"177A2228\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Oriental Stork<\/strong> (on left, background), Great Egret<\/strong>, Grey Heron<\/strong>, and mostly Black-headed Gulls<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a9 Johan Kok<\/p>\n

\"177A2312\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Domestic Geese\u00a0\u00a9 Johan Kok<\/p>\n

\"177A2346\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Grey Heron<\/strong>\u00a0Ardea cinerea<\/em>\u00a0\u00a9 Johan Kok<\/p>\n

\"177A2350\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Chinese Pond Heron<\/strong>\u00a0Ardeola bacchus<\/em>\u00a0\u00a9 Johan Kok<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Johan Kok On Sunday 21 September\u00a02015 I went for a long overdue\u00a0walk\u00a0along the Taehwa river in Ulsan.\u00a0 The first stop was the area where the Oriental Stork had been seen.\u00a0 It was still present in the same … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[775],"class_list":["post-16693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-ulsan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693","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=16693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16700,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions\/16700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}