Monday, March 4, 2019

Winter Wane II – Gangneung, February 27–March 3, 2019

Testing out my new line of mobile birding blinds. Order yours today!
Natural scrub-lined ditches being dug out and replaced with concrete death traps
Oh sweet, the air quality today is 'devil'
Northern Pintail Anas acuta
Common Pochard Aythya ferina
Greater Scaup Aythya marila
Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope
Eurasian Magpie Pica pica
Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
Sing n dash

  On a fresh February 27th, a Meadow Bunting, still a skulky Japanese Bush Warbler, and only one Dusky Thrush at Gyeongpo Lake. A restless plump of 14 Greater White-fronted Goose was perhaps an early sign of spring. Goodly numbers of waterfowl still lounged on and around the lake.
  Two days later, it was hazy and quiet in the Daegwalyeong hills north of town. Best were a Hazel Grouse and 30+ Rustic Buntings.
  The following day, still hazy and warm down the coast at Jongdongjin, where a North Korean submarine ran aground in 1996. No periscopes offshore on this day, just a pair of Black-necked Grebes and a lone Red-throated Loon drifting near 15+ Arctic Loons.
  On March 3rd, a return to Disappointment Valley in the warm haze. Nothing much of note all in the hills, apart from a sprinkling of tits and buntings.

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