Bird News from Jason Loghry and Nial Moores<\/p>\n
April 8th (Loghry & Moores) From the cliff-face out to sea, 4 Blue Rock Thrushes <\/strong>were observed each on their respective rock, and a single Pacific Reef Heron <\/strong>in dark plumage, flying low across the sea, passed us with a smile.<\/p>\n A very vibrant morning was supurbly highlighted when a feeding Goshawk<\/strong> startled a Turtle Dove <\/strong>and a Black Wood Pigeon<\/strong>, leading them to flee over head. What a sight! <\/p>\n In the sky feeding were 14 White-rumped Swifts<\/strong>, which we could also hear quite clearly; as were 4 Barn Swallows<\/strong>, making for an excellent morning to observe.<\/p>\n April 9th (Loghry) 3 Bush Warblers <\/strong>could be heard singing but with the morning growing late, disturbance increased tremendously. 2 Pacific Reef Herons<\/strong> were observed feeding along the coast as were greater numbers of Swifts <\/strong>and Swallows<\/strong> in the sky. <\/p>\n Curiosity led to a return to the site in the evening, just at dusk. To my pleasure, a Grey-back Thrush <\/strong>was found feeding in the leaves along a creek bed, completing yet another wonderful day of birding in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bird News from Jason Loghry and Nial Moores April 8th (Loghry & Moores) An early, cool, rainy morning provided for minimal disturbance during the first portion of our walk. The songs of Pale Thrushes echoed through a wet forest. 5 … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAn early, cool, rainy morning provided for minimal disturbance during the first portion of our walk. The songs of Pale Thrushes <\/strong>echoed through a wet forest. 5 Asian Stubtails <\/strong>were heard, one observed. 8 Grey Buntings<\/strong>, 1 Tristram’s Bunting<\/strong>, and 2 Black-faced Buntings <\/strong>were also observed. A Japanese Bush Warbler <\/strong>was observed and a Korean Bush Warbler<\/strong> could be heard singing along the rocky edge of the forest. <\/p>\n
\nSaturday morning was a much different setting, with a clear skies and dry evergreen. Although the Pale Thrushes <\/strong>could still be heard echoing through the forest in the early morning, no Stubtails nor Buntings other than Yellow-throated <\/strong>were observed. <\/p>\n