Seoul to Cheorwon trip

[JamesH]

Is anyone planning a day or weekend birding trip from Seoul to Choerwon during the crane migration that I could tag along on? James H.

[John Roberts]

I am planning to travel up this w/end, but am unsure about the timing of the crane migration.
Does anyone have information on timing/location in the Cheorwon area?

[Hangnamori]

Hi James, John,

The Cranes start moving out around mid March and are mostly gone by end of month.
If you have a car (and binoculars), you will have no problem seeing Cranes from the road, feeding in ricefields that surround the town. A good general area to try is near the Old Korean workers party office (burned out shell of a building).
If you are without transport, local taxi drivers are used to taking people to see the birds. it is most important to drive slowly and  not to disturb them of course.

[John Roberts]

Hangnamori

I appreciate the information - will probably see you on the road one day.
My only regret is that I'll not be able to meet up with Nial and others at Hwangin-po (probably wrong name) on the East coast over the week-end.
As for the cranes - we'll find them.
And, we'll stay off all possibly mined scrubland.

Regards

John 

[JamesH]

John and Hangnamori,  Thanks for the posts.  Sorry, I got swamped with work after making the post.  March 22 or 23 I could go.  Might be too late. Good luck.  James

[John Roberts]

James,

That was it I'm afraid - next outing will probably be Seosan + ?  ..... on the 22nd.

John

[Hangnamori]

For those needing a taxi to get around birding in Cheorwon I can recommend:-

"Cheaper Taxi'  tel. 017 230 3039
(Choi su Yol)

The driver is very easy-going, and familiar with driving birders around and knows all the areas of habitat to go to. he even features red-crowned cranes on his business card.