{"id":6644,"date":"2012-10-30T23:05:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=6644"},"modified":"2012-10-30T23:05:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:05:17","slug":"deokjeok-island-october-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=6644","title":{"rendered":"Deokjeok Island, October 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bird News from Subhojit Chakladar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A quick day-trip to Deokjeok-do, one of the onshore islands, an hours ferry ride from Incheon, provided an ideal way to make most of a wonderful and sunny Sunday. Even though not as good as Seochong and often teeming with tourists, Doekjeok-do, in my opinion can still surprise at times. This coupled with its ease of accessibility makes it an ideal place for &#8220;weekend birders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Though it lacked in the number of species that I&#8217;d encountered there in spring, one thing that was present in plenty on the island were Buntings. Within minutes of my arrival, I encountered a flock of<strong> Yellow-throated Buntings<\/strong> numbering more than a hundred birds. During my 5hr stay on the island, I found 3 more flocks of similar (and perhaps larger) size. Other species included <strong>Yellow-browed Bunting<\/strong> (~120), <strong>Black-faced Bunting<\/strong> (~300), <strong>Rustic Bunting<\/strong> (~70), a couple dozen <strong>Tristram&#8217;s Bunting<\/strong> and a single <strong>Little Bunting<\/strong>. Owing to a wide range of habitats and the relative ease of accessing them, birding on this island is quite easy. Other birds of note were significant numbers of <strong>Goldcrests<\/strong> and <strong>Eurasian Siskins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Walking along the rice fields on the southern part of the island, I had a close encounter with a <strong>Common Buzzard<\/strong> and a particularly rotund bird, whose plumage looked rather interesting. Inspite of the initial excitement, upon closer observation and photographic records, it turned out to be a <strong>Siberian Stonechat<\/strong> (a total of 5 spotted that day). The highlight of the day (at least for me) came minutes before boarding the return ferry, in form of a <strong>Common Crossbill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Subhojit Chakladar A quick day-trip to Deokjeok-do, one of the onshore islands, an hours ferry ride from Incheon, provided an ideal way to make most of a wonderful and sunny Sunday. Even though not as good as &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=6644\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[453,274,454],"class_list":["post-6644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-common-crossbill","tag-deokjeok-island","tag-yellow-throated-bunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6661,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}