Bird News from Spike Millington, 21 July 2013<\/p>\n
Just back from travels in USA and Europe, I popped down to the University area in Songdo to check on the Black-winged Stilts<\/strong>. When I left in early June, one male Stilt had two females on nests on small islands in the ponds of the reclaimed land. I suspect one nest failed, but yesterday one juvenile bird indicated that the other nest had been successful. A quick look at the mudflats revealed quite a few waders, notably 250 Black-tailed Godwits<\/strong>, nearly all in summer plumage and 60 Eastern Oystercatchers. <\/strong>A group of 85 Black-faced Spoonbills <\/strong>were also present, along with about 300 Great Cormorants<\/strong>.<\/p>\n At high tide at Gojan with Judit Szabo, the Godwits were still present, along with c. 400 Terek Sandpipers<\/strong>, 200 Eastern Curlew<\/strong>, 50 Dunlin<\/strong>, 50 Grey Plover<\/strong> and a few Great Knots<\/strong>, Ruddy Turnstones<\/strong> and Whimbrels<\/strong>. The Tereks typically peak at this time and numbers will fall off rapidly soon. However, the Black-tailed Godwits will hang around until October, often feeding the “fresh!” water of Namdong Reservoir, where yesterday there were 70 Greenshanks<\/strong> and 20 Wood Sandpipers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bird News from Spike Millington, 21 July 2013 Just back from travels in USA and Europe, I popped down to the University area in Songdo to check on the Black-winged Stilts. When I left in early June, one male Stilt … 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":[],"class_list":["post-9626","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\/9626","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=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9628,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}