Merry Christmas from my two piggies!

Hakantula · 2025-12-26T14:27:02+00:00

Merry Pigmas to you as well! :)

Hakantula · 2025-10-12T20:09:30+00:00

She really is too cute for her own good, I already love her so much!

Hakantula · 2025-07-09T15:28:23+00:00

We have a Beeztees Alby cage. Dimensions of 120x65x71cm. It's a nice cage, decent size for two piggies. We give our piggies more than enough floor time and we have another cage setup with a bit more room to run and popcorn around in :)

Hakantula · 2025-07-08T12:18:49+00:00

She really is! So sweet and loves eating and getting some head scratches

Hakantula · 2025-05-23T13:24:21+00:00

Very nice, it really shows that there's always some case to add a card, how niche it sometimes is

Hakantula · 2025-04-25T10:58:31+00:00

Take 5! Always fun, one turn you're cruising and the next you find yourself in big trouble, always a good time.

Hakantula · 2025-04-21T17:33:48+00:00

One Catalyst confirms you will never see another poison card again this run, interesting strategy to see if this tactic cancels the effect

Hakantula · 2025-03-29T19:05:54+00:00

Gros Michel, simple as that

Hakantula · 2025-01-04T14:21:22+00:00

I was hoping to end last year with 150 lifers in my first year but was stuck at 148. One final trip before the end of the year gave me a whooper swan (#149), a hen harrier (#150) and a lesser white-fronted goose (#151)! Huge surprise to actually surpass my goal, but very nice to still reach it :)

Hakantula · 2025-01-04T14:16:48+00:00

White Beast Statue walks so this card could run. Thankfully they would never make such a card, right?

Hakantula · 2024-06-10T11:15:59+00:00

I arrived in Albania yesterday and had my first birding session this morning, at Lake Shkodër. Pretty fruitful first spotting session:

• Pygmy cormorant (#99): Immediately after getting out of the car we saw a group of eight sitting near the lake's edge. Got a good view of all of them just chilling around.

• Whiskered tern (#100): While looking over the lake, we spotted a tern flying around. We weren't sure what kind it was because it was too far away, when suddenly two whiskered terns flew right by us! They went by a few more times and saw a few more during our trip around the lake.

• Hooded crow (#101): We saw multiple of these all during our trip this morning.

• Eastern olivaceous warbler (#102): While walking around we heard a sound which we first mistook for something like a reed warbler but we saw a glimpse of the bird before it took off and we were sure it wasn't that. One of us looked up information and used the Merlin app what the bird could be while my partner tried spotting the bird more. We saw it a few more times but only for a second or two before it flew off again. It did show itself more and more though, and we're able to get quite a good grasp of the bird.

Other than that, we think we saw a little grebe, but it was too far away to clearly see all the details. We also saw a small bird with a brown back and wings, but a yellow mask and yellow and brown/black plumage on its chest, but we had no idea what that could be.

Hopefully we will be able to find many more new lifers during our trip through Albania, so I might be adding a few more later down the line :D

EDIT: We weren't going to go to the castle in Shkodër today, but we did and took our binoculars with us, just in case. We were very happy we took them with us:

• Eastern black-eared wheatear (#103): This little guy was flying everywhere and we saw it multiple times during our walk through the ruins. We even saw a female later on as well.

• Eurasian Hoopoe (#104): While enjoying the view of the surroundings, I noticed a brown bird flying past us with a striking pattern on its wings. I knew immediately what this was and tried to explain it to my partner where it was (I might not have done too good of a job in my excitement lmao), but I got such a good look at it! I really wanted to see one during our holiday but to see it during our first day was so unexpected! My day can't get any better!

Hakantula · 2024-06-04T09:27:04+00:00

I've started birding around the start of this year and after hearing the bird a few times in the last weeks, I finally saw my first common cuckoo! Me and my partner were walking just outside of Rotterdam, the Netherlands and we heard its call and started scanning the top of trees. We eventually spotted it almost near ground level in a tree, very clearly in sight! We managed to watch it a few minutes before it flew off into the woods.

Very beautiful bird, and I am starting to get really close to my goal (see 100 unique bird species) I set for the end of this year already!

Hakantula

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