{"id":6639,"date":"2012-10-30T22:17:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2012-10-30T23:15:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:15:58","slug":"geoje-do-week-of-october-21-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=6639","title":{"rendered":"Geoje-do, week of October 21-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Matt Poll<\/p>\n<p>  It&#8217;s starting to feel like late fall in Korea, with crisp temperatures at night.  It&#8217;s also been a fruitful week of birding on Geoje, with over 60 species seen.  The ducks of winter have started to trickle in, with several hundred <strong>Spot-billed Duck<\/strong> spotted on the island&#8217;s bodies of water, as well as small numbers of <strong>Mallard<\/strong>, <strong>Eurasian Teal<\/strong>, <strong>Gadwall<\/strong>, <strong>Eurasian Wigeon<\/strong>, <strong>Greater Scaup<\/strong>, in addition to several <strong>Common Coot<\/strong>.  Returning <strong>Little Grebe<\/strong> and <strong>Black-headed Gull<\/strong> add to the wintery feel.<br \/>\n  Also of note this week were three <strong>Long-billed Plovers<\/strong> (which I only see in winter here), about 15 <strong>Eastern Buzzard<\/strong>,<br \/>\na good mix of Woodpeckers (<strong>Japanese Pygmy<\/strong>, <strong>Great Spotted<\/strong>, <strong>White-backed<\/strong>, and <strong>Grey-headed<\/strong>), still high double-digit flocks of <strong>Eurasian Siskin<\/strong> at several mountain locations, and groups of 6-20 <strong>Yellow-browed Warbler<\/strong> mixed in with flocks of mostly <strong>Long-tailed Tits<\/strong> at the bases of two separate mountains.  A nice treat on the 28th was a large and raucus parliament of at least 450 <strong>Rooks<\/strong>, with a dapper <strong>Daurian Jackdaw<\/strong> thrown in for contrast.  Nearby, I also had a thrilling close encounter with an aggressive Tiger Keelback as the sun set.<br \/>\n  Best of the week was a female <strong>Grey Bunting<\/strong> seen skulking near a small mountain stream relatively close to downtown Gohyeon, early on the morning of October 21st.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?attachment_id=6647\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6647\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bunt3-640x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6647\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Grey Bunting <em>Emberiza variabilis<\/em>. Photo \u00a9 Matt Poll.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?attachment_id=6649\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6649\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/plover-and-sandpiper-640x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6649\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Green Sandpiper (left) <em>Tringa ochropus<\/em>, Long-billed Plover <em>Charadrius placidus<\/em>. Photo \u00a9 Matt Poll.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?attachment_id=6651\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6651\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kestrel1-640x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6653\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Eurasian Kestrel <em>Falco tinnunculus<\/em>. Photo \u00a9 Matt Poll.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?attachment_id=6656\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/buzz21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/buzz21.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/buzz21-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Eastern Buzzard <em>Buteo japonicus<\/em>. Photo \u00a9 Matt Poll.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?attachment_id=6657\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/woodpecker-640x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6657\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Great Spotted Woodpecker <em>Dendrocopos major<\/em>. Photo \u00a9 Matt Poll.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?attachment_id=6658\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6658\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/woodpecker2-640x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6658\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">White-backed Woodpecker <em>Dendrocopos leucotos<\/em>. Photo \u00a9 Matt Poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Matt Poll It&#8217;s starting to feel like late fall in Korea, with crisp temperatures at night. It&#8217;s also been a fruitful week of birding on Geoje, with over 60 species seen. The ducks of winter have started &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=6639\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6639","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\/6639","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6663,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions\/6663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}