{"id":438,"date":"2011-04-23T17:55:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T08:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-04-16T20:36:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:36:49","slug":"april-20-21-eocheong-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Eocheong Island, April 20-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Bird News from Nial Moores<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>April 21, Eocheong Island<\/strong><br \/>\nWith moderate south-westerlies\/westerlies moderate and banks of cloud on through the day, a small arrival got underway.  67 species were recorded (the highest yet, though none numerous, and still more than 10 species fewer than during the same period in 2003), with personal firsts for the spring of <strong>Striated Heron<\/strong> (1), <strong>Oriental Scops Owl<\/strong> (2), <strong>Pale-legged Leaf Warbler<\/strong> (1), <strong>Siberian Rubythroat<\/strong> (3) and <strong>Siberian Blue Robin<\/strong> (4). Other species of note included the season high so far of <strong>Korean Bush Warbler<\/strong> (25), better views of the two <strong>Chinese Penduline Tit<\/strong> and the lingering <strong>Eyebrowed Thrush<\/strong>, and a <strong>Grey-headed Lapwing<\/strong> (second or third Eocheong record?) which apparently dropped in the evening ahead of the forecast rain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2011\/04\/eyebrowedthrush_APR 21_2011_2 051.jpg\" width=\"680\" height=\"410\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<strong>Eyebrowed Thrush<\/strong> <i>Turdus obscurus<\/i>. Photo &#169; Nial Moores\/Birds Korea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2011\/04\/eocheong2021\/chinpendulinetit_APR 21_2011_2 020.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"528\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<strong>Chinese Penduline Tit<\/strong> <i>Remiz consobrinus<\/i>. Photo &#169; Nial Moores\/Birds Korea<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 20, Eocheong Island<\/strong><br \/>\n61 species and only 431 individuals of all species logged (compared to 601 individuals of 77 species on April 20th 2003). Best for the day were the <strong>Pied Wheatear<\/strong> still (much showier than on 19th, though clearly spooked by the arrival of a big camera lens from the mainland!), a <strong>Citrine Wagtail <\/strong>(possibly the same, and remaining largely hidden for a couple of days?), a season high count of <strong>Pallas\u2019s Leaf Warbler<\/strong> (15), a <strong>Latham\u2019s Snipe<\/strong> seen briefly in the morning, and the <strong>Red-necked Grebe<\/strong> still.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2011\/04\/eocheong2021\/PIED WHEATEAR_APR 20_2011_2 026.JPG\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2011\/04\/eocheong2021\/PIED WHEATEAR_APR 20_2011_2 055.JPG\" width=\"680\" height=\"439\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<strong>Pied Wheatear<\/strong> <i>Oenanthe pleschanka<\/i>. Photos &#169; Nial Moores\/Birds Korea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2011\/04\/eocheong2021\/rngrebe_eocheong.jpg\" width=\"680\" height=\"412\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<strong>Red-necked Grebe<\/strong> <i>Podiceps grisegena<\/i>. Photos &#169; Cho Gil-Hwan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2011\/04\/DSC_0403piedwheatear_small size.jpg\" width=\"680\" height=\"362\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<strong>Pied Wheatear<\/strong> <i>Oenanthe pleschanka<\/i>. Photo &#169; Cho Gil-Hwan<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Nial Moores April 21, Eocheong Island With moderate south-westerlies\/westerlies moderate and banks of cloud on through the day, a small arrival got underway. 67 species were recorded (the highest yet, though none numerous, and still more than &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=438\">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":[41,48],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-eocheong-island","tag-pied-wheatear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8410,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/8410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}