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 [...]
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Winter Wildfowl | South Korea Birding
January 18th, 2019 
Nick 
Posted in Birdwatching in South Korea, Birdwatching Trips, Nature 
Tags: bird watching, bird watching in Korea, birding Korea, south korea bird watching, south korea birding trip, south korea winter birding 
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Watching Cranes in the Citizen Controlled Zone | South Korea Birding
January 22nd, 2017 Nick 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, [...]
Posted in Bird Behaviour, Birding DMZ, Birding in Cheorwon, Birdwatching in South Korea, Birdwatching Trips, Nature Tags: bird watching, bird watching in Korea, birding dmz, birding Korea, birdwatching trips, south korea birding tour, south korea birdwatching trips, south korea winter birding Comments Off
Sabine’s Gull at Pennington Flash | British Birding
August 14th, 2015 Nick I spent the last few days walking in the mountains in the Lake District National Park, but on my way I decided to stop off to look for a couple of unusual birds, the first being an adult Sabine’s Gull which had been reported as present for a few days at Pennington Flash, near Manchester. [...]
Gulls at Bang Poo | Thailand Birding
November 19th, 2013 Nick Every “winter” the gull flock at Bang Poo is more than 2000 birds strong and with ever-increasing numbers of Thai day trippers feeding the gulls this large flock of gulls is likely to remain a feature of birding in Thailand. A Lesser Black-backed Gull had been seen there a few weeks back, only Thailand’s second [...]
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Birding at Suan Luang in the Afternoon | Thailand Birding
May 3rd, 2008 Nick It is important to go out at the right time of the day when bird watching in Thailand and I was recently reminded of this when I took a late afternoon trip to do some birding at Suan Luang as I was bored with lurking around the house. Afternoon trips in Bangkok can be a risky strategy [...]
