Slow few weeks on Jeju / west coast bikin n birdin

Another road to nowhere

Yongsu Reservoir, west coast

Near Yongsu

Nice-looking Jacana habitat - if it wasn't surrounded by Olle Trails

Seotal Oreum - great for migrants in spring, especially thrushes and buntings

Altreu arifield - relic Kamikaze bunkers, and a great spot for Little Whimbrel and Oriental Pratincoles in spring

Southwest coast, looking east past Sanbangsan

Typical Japanese Paradise Flycatcher habitat

  Pretty quiet around Jeju lately, although I have found three new Japanese Paradise Flycatcher spots, in muggy valleys on the southern slope of Halla Mountain (South Korea's tallest peak) over the past couple of weeks. 
  I went on a ramble round the west coast last weekend in hopes of finding the fabled breeding grounds of rare species known to breed on Jeju in the past, such as Painted Snipe and Pheasant-tailed Jacana. No luck - it's a pretty big haystack to be rambling around.
  I did find some suitable lily ponds, but unfortunately these were much too close to sources of regular disturbance, like fishing spots and the ever-expanding Olle Trails. Looks like I need to gather some more intel...