{"id":17774,"date":"2016-03-05T09:56:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=17774"},"modified":"2016-03-05T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:56:34","slug":"gyeyangsan-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=17774","title":{"rendered":"Gyeyangsan, March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Robin Newlin<br \/>\nA holiday morning expedition to Gyeyangsan, particularly in hopes of the Siberian Accentors last reported by Tim Edelsten in February. Right outside the subway station, a group of <strong>Azure-winged Magpies<\/strong>, some clinging to the brick side of an old house; just before the mountain, a small flock of <strong>Long-tailed Tits<\/strong>. Single <strong>Varied Tit<\/strong> and <strong>Grey-headed Woodpecker<\/strong> greeted my ascent: it was still early enough that there were only a few hikers.<br \/>\nUp on the scrubby hillside, I found what I was seeking: at least 7 <strong>Siberian Accentors<\/strong>, characteristically shy and inquisitive at the same time. I spent most of the morning enjoying their company: small groups of <strong>Rustic<\/strong> and <strong>Yellow-throated Buntings, Naumann&#8217;s Thrushes, Grey-capped Greenfinches<\/strong> and <strong>Vinous-throated Parrotbills<\/strong> added background variety. On the way back down near mid-day, a <strong>Great Spotted Woodpecker<\/strong> and enormous numbers of ascending hikers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smaller-Gyeyang-Sib-acc-AP9F9482.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[17774]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smaller-Gyeyang-Sib-acc-AP9F9482-1024x761.jpg\" alt=\"smaller Gyeyang Sib acc AP9F9482\" width=\"690\" height=\"513\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smaller-Gyeyang-Sib-acc-AP9F9482-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smaller-Gyeyang-Sib-acc-AP9F9482-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smaller-Gyeyang-Sib-acc-AP9F9482-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n     Siberian Accentor <em>Prunella montanella<\/em> \u00a9Robin Newlin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smaller-Gyeyang-siberian-accentor-AP9F9456.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[17774]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smaller-Gyeyang-siberian-accentor-AP9F9456-1024x774.jpg\" alt=\"smaller Gyeyang siberian accentor AP9F9456\" width=\"690\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smaller-Gyeyang-siberian-accentor-AP9F9456-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smaller-Gyeyang-siberian-accentor-AP9F9456-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smaller-Gyeyang-siberian-accentor-AP9F9456-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n     Siberian Accentor <em>Prunella montanella<\/em> \u00a9Robin Newlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Robin Newlin A holiday morning expedition to Gyeyangsan, particularly in hopes of the Siberian Accentors last reported by Tim Edelsten in February. Right outside the subway station, a group of Azure-winged Magpies, some clinging to the brick &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=17774\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":17775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17774","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\/17774","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=17774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17777,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774\/revisions\/17777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}