Last week's Geoje-do birds

A secret valley filled with Yellow-throated Buntings

Half way up Parrotbill Mountain

Parrotbill Mountain

The view from my window - good for lazy gulling!

Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus

Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis

female Baikal Teal Anas formosa

Eurasian Teal Anas crecca

Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope

Grey Heron Ardea cinerea

Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos

Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni

Pale Thrush Turdus pallidus in pale light

Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus

Warbling (Japanese) White-eye Zosterops japonicus

  The weather for the first couple of weeks in January was unseasonably warm - up to 12° C (53°F) during the day. Here are a few of the birds I ran into on these sunny days. Daurian Redstarts have a habit of leading me down the trail like an impatient spirit guide, creaking their squeaky hinge creak.
  There is a salt-water canal right outside my window, and one of the first things I do every morning is scan the rafts of gulls and ducks for anything interesting.