Here is a collection of photos taken during a business (training) trip to Seoul, South Korea. The only birding opportunities were a hour on Friday after the "gradutation ceremony", and I was lucky to have a free Saturday before the afternoon flight back home. I wish to especially thank Jina and Sue for having guided me on Saturday 18th, first upstream on the Han river to a site named Misari, and then to the island of Ganghwa. Some birding statistics of the trip: - Recorded 46 species of birds - Photos of 35 species - 25 Lifers - I saw no insects, mammals or reptiles of any sort Thanks for visiting this page - Alec Earnshaw Site gateway: www.fotosaves.com.ar

PHOTOS Click on the photos to enlarge - then click outside to shrink

1. Friday 17th - Jeondong - just 1 hour before it got dark. Main target: Long-billed Plover

A view of the stream at Jeondong bridge, within Seoul city

Goosander / Common Merganser (male) Mergus merganser

Common Merganser (female) Mergus merganser

Green-winged Teal (male) Anas crecca

Gadwall (male) Mareca strepera

Mallard (male) Anas platyrhynchos

Gray Heron Ardea cinerea

Great Egret Ardea alba

Little Egret Egretta garzetta

Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax

Long-billed Plover Charadrius placidus

2. Saturday 18th - Misari - 7:15 am. Feezing cold: -7ºC with a moderate wind blowing

Misari - view of stream

Misari - view of bridge

Misari - distant birds in Han river

Misari - Guides Jina and Sue

Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus

Chinese Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha

Green-winged Teal (female) Anas crecca

White-tailed Sea Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla

Eastern or Japanese Buzzard Buteo japonicus

Brown-eared Bulbul Hypsipetes amaurotis

Japanese Wagtail Motacilla grandis

Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus

Vinous-throated Parrotbill Sinosuthora webbiana

Chinese Grosbeak Eophona migratoria

Eurasian Magpie Pica pica

Eurasian Tree Sparrow (male) Passer montanus

 

3. Saturday 18th - Ganghwa Island

View of North Korea from North Checkpoint

View of Yellow Sea from Haeannam (South of island), at low tide

3.1 Younmi-Jung (North Checkpoint)

Swan Goose Anser cygnoid

Bean Goose Anser fabalis

Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus

Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons

3.2 Younmi-Jung (further inland)

Ring-necked Pheasant (male) Phaisanus colchicus

Greater White-fronted Goose (juvenile and adult) Anser albifrons

Greater White-fronted Goose in rice fields Anser albifrons

Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos

Eurasian Kestrel (female) Falco tynnunculus

3.3 North Gate

North Gate

North Gate

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker Picoides kizuki

Goldcrest (female) Regulus regulus

Japanese Tit (male) Parus minor

Variable Tit Sittiparus varius

Variable Tit Sittiparus varius

3.4 Dongknock Stream

Great Egret Ardea alba

Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus

Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago

White Wagtail Motacilla alba

Ruddy Shelduck (male) Tadorna feruginea

Ruddy Shelduck (female) Tadorna feruginea

3.5 Donggeom-Ri (small island south of Ganghwa)

White-tailed Sea Eagle (immature) Haliaeetus albicilla

White-tailed Sea Eagle (immature) Haliaeetus albicilla

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