{"id":7650,"date":"2013-02-27T23:46:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=7650"},"modified":"2013-04-16T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T10:46:52","slug":"busan-february-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=7650","title":{"rendered":"Busan, February 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird news from Nial Moores <\/strong><\/p>\n

In mild, spring-like weather (with a high of 12C) an excellent afternoon of local birding and the first hints of northward landbird migration. The first species of note was a single Eurasian Hoopoe<\/strong> feeding in a belt of pine and open grass among apartment blocks near the Birds Korea office. As this area has been visited several times during the winter, this is presumably a new-in spring migrant rather than an overwintering bird. Also present in apparently increased numbers were singing Coal Tit<\/strong> and several small groups of Goldcrest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Along the harbour-front and hill-ridge, two Black Kite<\/strong> (one eating an unidentified fish in flight), two Eastern Buzzard<\/strong> and a Northern Goshawk<\/strong> were all of interest, while in the main park itself, at least 10 Eurasian Bullfinch<\/strong> were still present. These included several obvious rosacea<\/em> males and one much greyer \u201cgriseiventris<\/em> type\u201d, with some hint of pink admixed in the central breast (and thus presumed to be a rosacea<\/em> x griseiventris<\/em> intergrade).<\/p>\n

Near SK View, along the edge of open ground, single personata<\/em> Black-faced Bunting<\/strong>, three Siberian Accentor<\/strong>, the long-staying Long-tailed Shrike<\/strong> still, and in one patch of cut grass a mixed feeding flock containing 6+ Grey-capped Greenfinch<\/strong>, 10 Yellow-throated Bunting<\/strong> and 150+ Vinous-throated Parrotbill<\/strong> \u2013 the latter species unusually feeding out in the open on the ground in two large nervous flocks, either side of the main path. The sea was much quieter than in recent weeks (with the Pacific Loon<\/strong> flock and alcids nowhere to be seen), with most notable instead being single Red-throated Loon<\/strong> and Northern Shoveler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Eurasian Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula rosacea x griseiventris, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Eurasian Bullfinch<\/strong> Pyrrhula pyrrhula rosacea<\/em>, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Male Eurasian Bullfinch<\/strong> Pyrrhula pyrrhula rosacea<\/em>, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Vinous-throated Parrotbill<\/strong> Paradoxornis webbianus<\/em>, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Siberian Accentor<\/strong> Prunella montanella<\/em>, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Long-tailed Shrike<\/strong> Lanius schach<\/em>, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Grey-capped Greenfinch<\/strong> Carduelis sinica<\/em>, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Eurasian Hoopoe<\/strong> Upupa epops<\/em>, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird news from Nial Moores In mild, spring-like weather (with a high of 12C) an excellent afternoon of local birding and the first hints of northward landbird migration. The first species of note was a single Eurasian Hoopoe feeding in … 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":[],"class_list":["post-7650","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\/7650","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=7650"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}