This Eurasian Tree Sparrow (if I’ve identified it correctly) held relatively still long enough for me to get a look at it from 10 ft. or so.
Archive for the 'Birds' Category
Tuesday the 19th, a train trip (KTX; very nice) from Busan to Dong Daegu and then a drive further along the Andong River provided lots of opportunities to see egrets in the rice fields. I got no photos nor could we identified which egrets we saw (Jane? Sammy?), but there were many. There’ll be reports about the sights and such once I can stop long enough to record them.
While we were walking through a park in the Yeong-do part of Busan, Pat spotted these Magpies (P. pica sericea). She’d seen some earlier near our lodging, but this time we both got to see them and I snagged pictures.
Although we’ve seen a few other birds, we’ve only been able to identify them in general terms (e.g., rock dove, gull). We don’t have a book with us nor do we have the benefit of a guide. But, it’s still good to see a few birds.
Wikipedia has an multi-paragraph entry on these birds.
