It's been a while since I've had any time for Postcrossing, or blogging, so blogging about Postcrossing has logically suffered exponentially. But with the Christmas holidays in full swing, and the first holidays in about 10 years where I'm not either working or restoring a home to livable conditions, I've finally managed to send out all 23 possible cards I can send out at the moment (two are technically still waiting to be send, but all the mailboxes have been removed because of possible firework damage, so there's no possibility of mailing them anyway).
Apart from sending cards, I've also been receiving lots of them. One of my favourite categories is turning out to the 'Fauna of Belarus' series, that features animals living in, you guessed it, Belarus. And luckily for me, most of these cards depict birds.
This is the first I received, an Osprey (Pandion haliaetus):
There followed several others, including a
brown bear, a
nuthatch, and a
bullfinch, but my absolute favourite has to be this one of a little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus):
Because bitterns are simply the coolest birds ever, and by far the bird species I most want to see. If not for real in a reedbed somewhere around here, then a postcard will do nicely.
Sadly, there are no puffins in Belarus, so no puffin postcards, but they do have owls, including this Boreal owl (Aegolius funereus):
Finally, for some reason, the last two cards from this series that I've received have been paintings. They show another
Boreal owl and a
Pygmy owl. No idea why they switched to paintings, they are kinda nice to look at, but I prefer the real pictures.
If any of you Belarussian Postcrossers are reading this: keep the fauna cards coming! I love them! Also, great to see that you still have so many of these animals that we can only see in zoos, roaming around freely. Makes me wonder whether I should plan my next trip in the direction of Eastern Europe, and that is exactly one of the reasons I'm Postcrossing for!
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