{"id":17767,"date":"2016-03-05T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=17767"},"modified":"2016-03-05T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:34:09","slug":"seoul-area-february-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=17767","title":{"rendered":"Seoul Area, February 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Robin Newlin and Andreas Kim<\/p>\n

AK and I first stopped by Paldang, hoping for Steller’s Sea Eagle. We saw none, but found solace in at least 4 White-tailed Sea Eagles<\/strong>, one very handsomely flecked white on the shoulders, and some variety (but rather small numbers) of waterfowl: Goldeneye, Spot-billed Duck, Common Merganser, Bean Goose, Whooper Swans, Tufted Duck,<\/strong> Pochard<\/strong> and Common Teal<\/strong>. Also small numbers of Little<\/strong> and Great Crested Grebes<\/strong>, at least 50 Great Cormorants<\/strong>, a Common Buzzard<\/strong>. We heard Long-tailed<\/strong> and Marsh Tits<\/strong> and saw a Japanese Wagtail<\/strong>.
\nNext stop (after much stop and go traffic) was the Oksu-Eungbong stretch of the Han river, along the stream. Highlights were (again, small numbers overall) Mandarin Ducks<\/strong> (7), Tufted Ducks<\/strong>, Common Pochards<\/strong>, Pintails, Shovelers<\/strong> and Spot-billed Ducks<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"shovels<\/a>.
\n Shovelers Anas Clypeata<\/em> \u00a9Robin Newlin
\nLight snow flurries shortly after we arrived quickly turned into heavy precipitation–accompanied by thunder(!). We beat a cautious retreat.<\/p>\n

\"Snow\"<\/a>
\n Snow, gulls and waterfowl \u00a9Andreas Kim<\/p>\n

\"smaller<\/a>
\n Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata<\/em> \u00a9Robin Newlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Robin Newlin and Andreas Kim AK and I first stopped by Paldang, hoping for Steller’s Sea Eagle. We saw none, but found solace in at least 4 White-tailed Sea Eagles, one very handsomely flecked white on the … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":17769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17767","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\/17767","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=17767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17773,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17767\/revisions\/17773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}