{"id":7169,"date":"2012-12-18T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T05:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2013-04-16T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:05:15","slug":"joonam-reservoirs-december-15th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=7169","title":{"rendered":"Joonam Reservoirs, December 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Birds News from Nial Moores, Park Meena, Thomas Chojnicki, Jason Loghry and Subjohit Chakladar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A quick visit in mild (maximum of 12-13C) and foggy conditions to Joonam proved excellent for landbirds, with most notable a <strong>Red-breasted Flycatcher<\/strong> (heard and seen by all but SC, though only briefly: believed the first provincial record, and probably only the second national mid-winter record), two <strong>Red-billed Starling<\/strong> and 11 <strong>Common Starling<\/strong> (mixed in with a flock of c. 75 <strong>White-cheekeds<\/strong>) and a \u201c<strong>Dark-throated<\/strong>\u201d <strong>Thrush<\/strong> (most likely a First-winter male).  Other landbird highlights included single <strong>Eurasian Hoopoe<\/strong> and <strong>Eastern Yellow Wagtail<\/strong> (both excellent mid-winter records) in addition to single <strong>Eurasian Bullfinch <\/strong>and up to 50 thrush (mostly <strong>Dusky<\/strong> with at least two <strong>Naumann\u2019s<\/strong>).   A flock of c. 30 <strong>White-naped Crane<\/strong> appearing out of the fog, single <strong>Northern Goshawk<\/strong> and <strong>Eurasian Sparrowhawk<\/strong> and excellent views of a large-looking <strong>Amur Leopard Cat<\/strong> provided further memorable highlights.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dec15_2012_threespeciesofstarlings.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[7169]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7159\" title=\"dec15_2012_threespeciesofstarlings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dec15_2012_threespeciesofstarlings-e1355809270304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a>Common Starling <em>Sturnus vulgaris<\/em>, Red-billed Starling <em>Spodiopsar sericeus <\/em>and White-cheeked Starling <em>Spodiopsar cineraceus <\/em>at Joonam, December 15th.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds News from Nial Moores, Park Meena, Thomas Chojnicki, Jason Loghry and Subjohit Chakladar A quick visit in mild (maximum of 12-13C) and foggy conditions to Joonam proved excellent for landbirds, with most notable a Red-breasted Flycatcher (heard and seen &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=7169\">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":[36,498],"class_list":["post-7169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-junam","tag-red-breasted-flycatcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169","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=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8318,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions\/8318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}