http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk Birding from around the world Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birds-around-incheon-south-korea-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birds-around-incheon-south-korea-birding/#comments Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:04:58 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=63771 Have you ever started a birding tour by getting off of the plane and rushed into a vehicle, sleep-deprived and confused, spending the remainder of the day birding in extreme weather conditions, seeing some amazing birds but not being able to enjoy them properly due to your body being on the verge of shutdown? Well, [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birds-around-incheon-south-korea-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/winter-woodpeckers-of-korea-south-korea-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/winter-woodpeckers-of-korea-south-korea-birding/#comments Thu, 09 May 2019 08:10:04 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=21639 Woodpeckers are one of my favourite groups of birds so I was very happy to see six species of them on the 2019 winter tour of South Korea in January, particularly as two of them were among my favourites; the friendly Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker and the impressive Black Woodpecker. Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker is widespread and [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/winter-woodpeckers-of-korea-south-korea-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/becoming-a-gull-watcher-in-winter-south-korea-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/becoming-a-gull-watcher-in-winter-south-korea-birding/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2019 06:40:41 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=21496 To say that gull watching is an acquired taste would be to ignore the fact that many birders never do acquire the taste. However, on two consecutive tours to South Korea many of those accompanying me have started out as skeptics but have quickly found watching large numbers of gulls and a wide variety of [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/becoming-a-gull-watcher-in-winter-south-korea-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/winter-wildfowl-south-korea-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/winter-wildfowl-south-korea-birding/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:57:16 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=21477 Having recently returned from leading my third winter birding tour to South Korea I have some time to reflect on different aspects of this excellent trip. While the big draw is to see large numbers of Red-crowned, Hooded & White-naped Cranes, Steller’s Sea Eagle, Relict Gull, Oriental Stork and many other rare and range-restricted East [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/winter-wildfowl-south-korea-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-highlights-of-2017/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-highlights-of-2017/#comments Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:19:26 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11892 Happy New Year! I am looking forward to what I have planned ahead in 2018 with a birding trip starting in Northern Thailand in a few days and a two week trip to Myanmar at the end of the month, but I also looked back to some of my birding highlights of 2017. Birding in [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-highlights-of-2017/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/east-coast-gulls-south-korea-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/east-coast-gulls-south-korea-birding/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:54:51 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11249 Earlier this week, as part of our winter birding tour of South Korea, we spent a few days travelling down the East coast of this East Asian country, stopping in many harbours and bays to look for seabirds and a number of gull species. The sheer numbers of gulls was mind-blowing, with around 50000 in [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/east-coast-gulls-south-korea-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/cranes-in-the-citizen-controlled-zone-south-korea-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/cranes-in-the-citizen-controlled-zone-south-korea-birding/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2017 13:00:42 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11233 One of the highlights of winter birding in South Korea is birding near the DMZ, specifically watching cranes emerge in the morning. On the second day of this year’s South Korea winter birding tour we spent almost the whole day on the South Korea/North Korea border, spending much of our time in the Citizen Controlled Zone, [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/cranes-in-the-citizen-controlled-zone-south-korea-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/national-arboretum-south-korea-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/national-arboretum-south-korea-birding/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:52:12 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11222 Today was the first of an eleven day birding trip to South Korea that I am leading, having led a similar trip to the country one year ago. After meeting everyone at Incheon airport, Seoul, we drove straight to the National Arboretum where we spent the whole afternoon birding around this lovely woodland park with [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/national-arboretum-south-korea-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/photos-from-south-korea/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/photos-from-south-korea/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:05:02 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=1187 I am back in Thailand enjoying the warmth after leading a cold but successful birding tour of South Korea alongside Nial Moores of BirdsKorea. Despite the unusually severe temperatures we found a high proportion of our target species including a magnificent Steller’s Sea Eagle, Relict Gull, 25+ Scaly-sided Mergansers, 3 Solitary Snipe, Red-crowned Crane, Hooded [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/photos-from-south-korea/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-at-namhansanseong-south-korea/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-at-namhansanseong-south-korea/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:27:39 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=1113 In June I made a very enjoyable trip to South Korea. This was not a birding trip as we spent most of our time doing typically touristy things but before my visit I emailed Nial Moores of BirdsKorea to ask him whether there were any locations close to the capital city, Seoul, where I could [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-at-namhansanseong-south-korea/feed/ 0