Way back when

Gotta love those skiddy hoar frost morning rides

Robin, Subho, and Loghry try to spot an Eastern Water Rail at dusk - two of them succeeded... 

Tim finally gets his Sandhill Crane

Tim scans the bay from the seawall for a sunset surprise

I find my second Suncheon Sandhill

Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea

Eurasian Siskin Spinus spinus

Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus

Eurasian Magpie Pica pica

Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis huddle and circle on a ridiculously small unfrozen patch

Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus

Hooded Crane Grus monacha

  It’s been a slow bird week, so I was having a traipse down memory lane, sifting through old Suncheon folders from this time last year, and found a few I had plum forgotten about in the mindless scramble of my last month in Korea. Here are a few more memories from the best patch I’ve had the pleasure of birding in - although it was being steadily degraded by encroaching development when I left, and I hear that has continued unabated. Incidentally, the memories would have paled without the cool dudesters in those pics.
  Going up north tomorrow for a few days to hang out with Joey, and I’ve got some ambitious, Google Maps-inspired winter birding planned. Fingers crossed.