Bagobo Robin: My 498th Philippine Lifer!
Skip this if you wanna go straight to the birding part! It’s been a loooong time since my last blog post and now we have a ton of backlog, so let’s try to work our way through this in the coming months. I’ve sorta had some type of task paralysis wherein I randomly edit different photos from different trips without actually locking in on a specific blog and now I have 4 months of backlog…. I was planning to do other retrospectives from some of my mega lifers from much earlier (Green-faced Parrotfinch and Spoonbilled Sandpiper) but am too overwhelmed for anymore of this at the moment!!! This is the first blog (not including that shitty Adams trip with 0 birds) where I actually get to use my new camera + lens (OM-1 MKII with a 100-400mm MKII lens). 498th!!!!! Last September, Angel and I headed to Mindanao to get some lifers! We flew to Cagayan de Oro and were picked up by Ben Maputi, who has a strip of land that has a bunch of Mindanao endemics. Since 2025, this area has become a pho...
