Cornwall - Birds 2013.

 

 

Beautiful Stamps - Montserrat 1970 Birds.

If I could vote for a wonderful bird stamp set - I would give a 10 on 10 for this set .

 

This set has a tick in the box for :

 

1. Colour

2.the bird

3. Design

4. good top values in span in less than 15 stamps.

 

The best stamp set in my collection this year .

 

 

And the best stamp in the set !! the 2nd top value....the Carib.

 

Monaco Airmails 1955/57 - Marine Birds.

The Monaco Airmail set a very nice collectible and with its Perf variations .

1955 - Marine Birds a Perf 11.

100f-  Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii).
200f-  Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis). 
500f-  Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans).  
1000f- Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo ).  


1957-  Marine birds a  Perf 13 .

100f-  Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii).
200f-  Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis). 
1000f- Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo ).  

 

The Stamps depict marine birds -


Roseate Tern -

I haven't seen one yet but its very close to the Common tern .
The picture of the tern was taken near View Island Reading , UK. I think its a juvenile common tern.

Tern(juvenile) rear Reading View Island

Great Cormorant -

Cormorants

 

 

in the distance Cormorant's - near Lands End Cornwall

Yellow-legged Gull -

A lovely bird very similar to a Herring Gull ; but the unique identifier is the Red spot near the lower end of its beak . Thanks to the stamp - helped me make a differential attribute between the two ( 1. Herring Gull   , 2. Yellow -legged Gull )



at Lands End - Cornwall.

At last :

Wandering Albatross -

Not seen yet :) .