{"id":9977,"date":"2013-09-01T09:56:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T00:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=9977"},"modified":"2013-09-05T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:22:10","slug":"nakdong-august-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=9977","title":{"rendered":"Nakdong, August 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Birds News from Jason Loghry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning, light to dark grey clouds covered the sky. A typhoon (Toraji) had passed the night before more quietly than expected. At Myeongji, 300+ <strong>Barn Swallow<\/strong> were at roost on some reeds, while hundreds more were in flight. This roosting flock included 4+ <em>brown<\/em> <strong>Martins<\/strong> (were they <strong>Pale<\/strong> or <strong>Sand<\/strong>?). From a distance, I was able to find and watch a few shorebirds. They included <strong>Mongolian Plover<\/strong> (5), <strong>Common Greenshank<\/strong> (9), <strong>Red-necked Stint<\/strong> (131), <strong>Wood Sandpiper<\/strong> (23), <strong>Sharp-tailed Sandpiper<\/strong> (3), <strong>Great Knot<\/strong> (30+), <strong>Whimbrel<\/strong>, <strong>Far Eastern Curlew<\/strong> (7), and <strong>Eurasian Curlew<\/strong> (2). <\/p>\n<p>Straining to get good views, I decided to move on to Eulsukdo. I met up with members of the Nakdong Eco-school team, Ms Kim Bok Sun and Ms Park Jin Ju. Walking along a stretch of willow trees, we found a few juvenile and adult <strong>Grey-streaked Flycatchers<\/strong> hawking insects. We also found one adult <strong>Asian Brown Flycatcher<\/strong> and four <strong>Arctic Warbler<\/strong> <em>sensu lato<\/em> (JL). Other species observed were <strong>Common Kingfisher<\/strong>, <strong>Oriental Reed Warbler<\/strong>, and still many <strong>Far Eastern Cisticola<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>On my way home, I couldn&#8217;t help but make one more stop at a favorite patch. At this spot, I often only find roosting <strong>Spot-billed Duck<\/strong>, <strong>Mandarin Duck<\/strong> (including juvenile), <strong>Common Greenshank<\/strong>, egrets and herons. So you can imagine how stoked I was when I found <strong>Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong> (5), <strong>Sharp-tailed Sandpiper<\/strong> (3), <strong>Wood Sandpiper<\/strong> (15), <strong>Black-winged Stilt<\/strong> (5) and <strong>Common Snipe<\/strong> (7) all within a few meters of my usual observation point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds News from Jason Loghry On Saturday morning, light to dark grey clouds covered the sky. A typhoon (Toraji) had passed the night before more quietly than expected. At Myeongji, 300+ Barn Swallow were at roost on some reeds, while &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=9977\">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":[606],"class_list":["post-9977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-nakdong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977","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=9977"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10014,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions\/10014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}