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

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.