{"id":26676,"date":"2023-01-04T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T01:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=26676"},"modified":"2023-01-07T21:49:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T12:49:54","slug":"gangneung-gyeonpo-lake-and-daegwallyong-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=26676","title":{"rendered":"Gangneung, Gyeonpo lake, and Daegwallyong Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Birds Korea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 28 and 29, long walks in Gyeongpo lake and wetland park, Gangneung, as well as a (unfortunately much too short) trip to Daegwallyong Samyang Farm, a combined dairy and wind farm at around 1000 meter altitude (peak at 1140 m), near Pyeongchang. Gyeongpo lake and wetland park is \u2013 as most of Korea \u2013 thoroughly domesticated, with two roads directly beside most of the lake and numerous walk ways used constantly by people enjoying the fresh winter weather. So, chances for real surprises are not too good. Anyway, a nice assortment of ducks, in particular Mallards, a few Spot-billed Ducks, Greater Scaups, Tufted Ducks, Pochards, Goldeneyes, Teals and Common Mergansers as well as great views of female and male Smews at the lake, together with a White-tailed Eagle, coming late in the evening and staying overnight on the ice \u2013 around 4\/5 of the lake were frozen. Also, a Peregrine Falcon in the morning, and Common Kestrel, Eastern Buzzard and Upland Buzzard hunting in the adjacent fields. Other birds included Coots and Common Moorhens, Great Crested Grebes and Little Grebes, a large number of Eurasian Larks (two big flocks and many single birds flying over the area), and small numbers of tits, buntings, among them a Little Bunting, White Wagtails and a Japanese Wagtail, Bull-headed Shrikes, three Naumann\u00b4s Thrushes etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The complete checklist (49 species) for Gyeongpo Lake can be found here: https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S124881703<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daegwallyeong Samyang Farm is a short ride from Pyeongchang junction, but it goes up into the moutains, and good winter tires are a must (which I did not have). On the top, roads are snowy and icy, though to some extent cleared from heavy snow. In a mostly frozen stream, in one of the few open spots there were three lovely Brown Dippers. Good views of Pallas\u00b4s Rosefinches, as well as of Coal Tits, Marsh Tits, Japanese (Great) Tits, and Varied Tits, White-backed Woodpeckers and other birds. I am sure a longer walk, also to the top, would have brought more interesting views\u2026all in all, a great trip to the loveliest part of Korea, Gangwondo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The complete list for Daegwallyeong (16 species) can be found here: https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S124882596<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Juvenile
Juvenile Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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\"Male
Male Smew Mergellus Albellus \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
\"Great
Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopus major \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Little
Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hunting
Hunting Upland Buzzard Buteo Hemilasius \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Shriking
Shriking Bull-headed Shrike Lanius Bucephalus \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Pallas`s
Pallas`s Rosefinch Carpodacus Roseus \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Birds Korea) On December 28 and 29, long walks in Gyeongpo lake and wetland park, Gangneung, as well as a (unfortunately much too short) trip to Daegwallyong Samyang Farm, a combined dairy and wind farm at … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":26675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26682,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions\/26682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}