{"id":4395,"date":"2012-05-04T09:43:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T00:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2013-04-16T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:20:36","slug":"gageo-island-april-25th-april-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=4395","title":{"rendered":"Gageo Island, April 25-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bird News from Nial Moores<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rather more of the same (with no additional species to compare with the male <strong>Fujian Verditer<\/strong> on Weiyeon found on 25th), with instead between 65 and 97 species recorded each day.  Among these, highlights included probably both <strong>Siberian Chiffchaff<\/strong> remaining through until April 28th, and two <strong>Asiatic Verditer Flycatcher<\/strong> together on 26th &#8211;  with at least one of these remaining through until month\u2019s end, even singing occasionally.   In addition to the regular scarce spring migrants (including <strong>Citrine Wagtail<\/strong>, with 3-4 recorded during the past two weeks), there were wonderfully good views \u2013 though no images \u2013 of a <em>menzbieri<\/em> <strong>Pechora Pipit<\/strong> and a peak of 3 <strong>White-breasted Waterhen<\/strong>, both on 26th.  Other species of interest included 1-2 <strong>White-shouldered Starling<\/strong>, a longish-winged presumed <strong>Pacific Golden Plover<\/strong> (April 26th-28th) (of which perhaps more in a separate post), a <strong>Pied Harrier<\/strong> on April 29th, and on April 30th in 1-Gu and 2-Gu a total of 59 <strong>Narcissus Flycatcher<\/strong> (none as yellow-washed below as the odd individual disgiscoped on 25th) and two adult male <strong>Black Paradise Flycatcher<\/strong> together, watched at close range towards dusk. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/resizedcitrine_apr25ageo-012-e1336090619853.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[4395]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/resizedcitrine_apr25ageo-012-e1336090728932.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Citrine Wagtail Apr 25\" width=\"500\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4398\" \/><\/a><center>Citrine Wagtail <em>Motacilla citreola<\/em>. Image \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/resizedblackparaindarkapril30gageo-108-e1336090866947.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[4395]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/resizedblackparaindarkapril30gageo-108-e1336090866947.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Black Paradise Flycatcher April 30\" width=\"500\" height=\"479\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4412\" \/><\/a><center>Black Paradise Flycatcher <em>Terpsiphone atrocaudata<\/em>. Image \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/resizedbparaflyindarkapril30gageo-1521.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[4395]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/resizedbparaflyindarkapril30gageo-1521-e1336091691702.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Black Paradise Flycatcher April30\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4422\" \/><\/a><center>Black Paradise Flycatcher <em>Terpsiphone atrocaudata<\/em>. Image \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/yellowishwashednarcissustype_apr26ageo-100.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[4395]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/yellowishwashednarcissustype_apr26ageo-100-e1336090964728.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Yellowish-washed Narcissus type Apr26\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4414\" \/><\/a><center>Narcissus Flycatcher-type, showing yellow eye-ring, whiteish wing-bars, and strong yellowish wash to the underparts. \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/resizedplover_apr26ageo-148.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[4395]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/resizedplover_apr26ageo-148-e1336091041308.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Plover Apr 26\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4415\" \/><\/a><center>Pacific Golden Plover-type, showing apparently long primary projection. Image \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/resizedverditerindarkapril27gageo-031.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[4395]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/resizedverditerindarkapril27gageo-031-e1336091134551.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Verditer Flycatcher April27\" width=\"500\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4418\" \/><\/a><center>Verditer Flycatcher <em>Eumyias thalassinus<\/em>. Image \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Nial Moores Rather more of the same (with no additional species to compare with the male Fujian Verditer on Weiyeon found on 25th), with instead between 65 and 97 species recorded each day. Among these, highlights included &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=4395\">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":[253,258,255,259],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-gageo","tag-golden-plover","tag-verditer-flycatcher","tag-yellow-washed-narcissus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","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=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8366,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions\/8366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}