{"id":21511,"date":"2019-01-03T23:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=21511"},"modified":"2019-01-03T23:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T14:25:55","slug":"south-east-december-31-2018-january-2-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=21511","title":{"rendered":"South-east, December 31, 2018 & January 2, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bird News from Nial Moores with Jason Loghry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 31, much of the day was spent in Taejongdae in Busan where highlights included good views of one (rather self-conscious!) White\u2019s Thrush<\/strong>, Red-flanked Bluetail<\/strong>, good numbers of Japanese White-eye<\/strong> and Yellow-bellied Tit<\/strong> (with 21 of the latter), and a small movement of loons offshore, with 35 Pacific<\/strong> counted going south in only 15 minutes. Miss of the day was a small glossy-black above thrush seen briefly, which was most likely a Grey Thrush<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White’s Thrush<\/strong> Zoothera aurea <\/em>
\u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red-flanked Bluetail<\/strong> Tarsiger cyanurus <\/em>
\u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Japanese White-eye<\/strong> Zosterops japonicus<\/em>
\u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A full list\nof birds seen can be found on eBird at: https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S51111462<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On January 2, we spent the morning along the Guryongpo Peninsula. Strong westerly winds with white-caps and temperatures near freezing were not well-compensated for by the birds \u2013 with only small numbers of gulls (e.g. only nine Glaucous<\/strong> and 55 Slaty-backed Gulls<\/strong>), two individual alcids (a single Ancient Murrelet<\/strong> and Rhinoceros Auklet<\/strong>) with the only species present in good numbers being Black-necked Grebe<\/strong>, with 790 counted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adult Glaucous Gull<\/strong> Larus hyperboreus<\/em> with Vega Gulls<\/strong> Larus vegae<\/em>
\u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Slaty-backed Gulls<\/strong> Larus schistisagus<\/em>
\u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The very good decision was therefore made to head to Junam for the late afternoon. With increasing awareness of management, some fields used by feeding White-naped Cranes<\/strong> were being kept clear of visitors; and the area of wet field has been increased \u2013 much to the liking of seven Swan Geese<\/strong> and a single highly unseasonal Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White-naped Crane<\/strong> Antigone vipio<\/em>
\u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores . Note “K01” on the left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Swan Geese <\/strong>Anser cygnoides<\/em>
\u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong> Limosa limosa<\/em>
\u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jason Loghry…All smiles at Junam!
\u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the main reservoir itself, crowds of birds were concentrated into ice-free areas. Although there were very oddly no Aythya here, highlights nonetheless included a single young Steller\u2019s Sea Eagle<\/strong> (perhaps my first at this site), a distant Eurasian Bittern<\/strong> spotted spectacularly by JL; small numbers of Baikal Teal<\/strong> (perhaps 160 in total); and at least 260 White-naped Cranes<\/strong> in the evening. As is so often the case, Junam also provided \u201cone that got away\u201d: we heard 2-3 notes very suggestive of Western Water Rail<\/strong> two or three times as we walked back to the car\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores with Jason Loghry On December 31, much of the day was spent in Taejongdae in Busan where highlights included good views of one (rather self-conscious!) White\u2019s Thrush, Red-flanked Bluetail, good numbers of Japanese White-eye and … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":21501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21511","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\/21511","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21512,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21511\/revisions\/21512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}