vintage and contemporary postcards and stamps from around the world


03 November 2026

big, black and noisy

 bird of the week

"...then this ebony bird beguiling my sad face into smiling"

stamp printed 2016 for the Birds of Canada series.  The raven is the Yukon territory's official bird

day 3 of NaBloPoMo

EDIT to show the whole bird on the souvenir sheet

the random design is interesting, but I would have liked to have more usable selvedge on each one

5 comments:

Mail Adventures said...

I thik the position of the bird is an unusual one for a stamp. Cool!

violet said...

yes, but the souvenir sheet shows the whole bird. I'll see if I can find it.

Lisa said...

One of my favorite birds! The other is crow, so I'm partial to the corvid family.

marina said...

I like corvids too....

violet said...

same :)
I even like hearing the caw caw