Bird News from Spike Millington, 25 March. <\/p>\n
\nAfter a fly-by Oriental Stork<\/strong> at lunch on Saturday, I visited the Sorae mudflats at a pretty low high tide in the afternoon with Minseon Kim, Kwanmok Kim, Youngmin Kim (yes, a lot of Kims!) and Jonathan Green, visiting\u00a0from Princeton University.<\/p>\n \nWith the wintering Eurasian Curlew<\/strong> (400), Dunlin<\/strong> (600) and Grey Plover<\/strong> (50)\u00a0were 35 Bar-tailed Godwits<\/strong>, mostly in orangey breeding plumage, 4 Great Knots<\/strong> and one Whimbrel<\/strong>. A couple of dogs put up the curlew flock revealing several Far Eastern Curlew<\/strong>. Apart from the Little Ringed Plovers<\/strong>, the first of which arrived two weeks ago and Kentish Plover<\/strong>, of which about 50 were running around the mudflats at Ahm-do last week, these were the first real shorebird migrants of the spring. In addition, Jonathan and the Kims had seen 20 Red-necked Stints<\/strong> earlier in the day at Ganghwa. <\/p>\n \nAt Namdong Reservoir, scanning for Spoonbills was interrupted by 99 White-naped Cranes<\/strong> migrating over in a westerly direction in two flocks. Nine Black-faced Spoonbills<\/strong> were sleeping and preening on a small reed island, occasionally venturing out to feed. The first Spoonbills apparently arrived back on March 12th, a record early date. About 20 Grey Herons<\/strong> were also present. The usual duck were around, although numbers of Common Pochard<\/strong> were much lower. <\/p>\n \nOn the newly reclaimed land by the university, a redhead Common Merganser\u00a0<\/strong>was on the pools, 50 White Wagtails<\/strong> were on a drained pond (mostly leucopsis <\/em>but some ocularis<\/em>), while Eurasian Skylarks<\/strong> sang overhead. Eastern Oystercatchers<\/strong> were back on the reclamation, with Little Ringed Plovers<\/strong>, while about 100 Oystercatchers were on the mud, now rapidly being filled in.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bird News from Spike Millington, 25 March. After a fly-by Oriental Stork at lunch on Saturday, I visited the Sorae mudflats at a pretty low high tide in the afternoon with Minseon Kim, Kwanmok Kim, Youngmin Kim (yes, a lot … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[534,167,535],"class_list":["post-7975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-birding","tag-songdo","tag-sorae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7975"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8010,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}