Birdsong at the cabin

Our friends [name] and [name] have joined us at the cabin, so we have done a few trips for sightseeing. The other day, we were joined by the wildlife photographer [name] and went for a walk in the forest near Eagle Ranch, where he placed two trap cameras. There was evidence of bear (scat) and boar (digging). We also saw a fox near the restaurant. I have been leaving an egg near the compost pile on our property and every morning it is gone, so we are hoping our regular fox is finding them. I also spotted a hare around the cabin yesterday. The only bad news is that our car got damaged in a severe hail storm a week ago.

Two days ago we took [name] and [name] to the Sleeping Beauty Cave near Peja, and yesterday we hiked up to Lake Leqinat (altitude 1871 m) near the Montenegro border, where we enjoyed a refreshing swim and watched small salamanders in the shallows. Besides the spectacular displays of wildflowers, I heard the call of a Spotted Nutcracker, which joins my Life List of Birds, along with other additions around the cabin: Yellowhammer, Black Redstart, Goldcrest (rare, and apparently the smallest bird in Europe), Eurasian Blackcap, Song Thrush, Eurasian Wren, Eurasian Jay, Common Woodpigeon, and Common Firecrest.