\nOn March 27 at Namdae Cheon I saw a Hooded Crane<\/strong> fly upstream then back towards the coast. Then on March 30 at Nam Cheon near Ganseong I saw 22 Hooded Cranes foraging in rice fields. I found 15 more on in the same area on April 3. I hadn’t seen cranes before in this part of Korea.<\/p>\n \nThere have been mixed flocks of Rooks<\/strong> and Daurian Jackdaws<\/strong> migrating north during most of March. And more than 1000 White-fronted Geese<\/strong> have been foraging in rice fields near Nam Cheon, including about 1600 on April 3.<\/p>\n \nSome other firsts included a Common Redshank<\/strong> and a Eurasian Curlew<\/strong> at Cheongcho lagoon in Sokcho on March 27. The curlew was foraging on the sand flat amongst the Black-tailed Gulls<\/strong> and Great Cormorants<\/strong>. On April 3 I saw the first Barn Swallow<\/strong> at Nam Cheon and Siberian Stonechat<\/strong> at Songji Lagoon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n All photographs copyright Barry Heinrich<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bird news from Barry Heinrich The last month or so has seen the end of the winter chill and the beginning of spring migration. The northern lagoons, Hwajinpo Lagoon and Songji Lagoon were mostly ice free by the second weekend … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[846],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-north-east-gangwon-province"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Eastern Great Egret<\/b> Ardea modesta<\/i>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Hooded Cranes<\/b> Grus monacha<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Eurasian Curlew<\/b> Numenuis arquatus<\/i>.
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