Experience nature – birds of prey and owls

675th stamp blog: 2025 is the Year of the Kestrel

Written in: Dutch • Randy Koo • 15 Januari 2025

Who isn't familiar with the phenomenon? Along the side of the road, a bird of prey hangs motionless in the air, flapping its wings and searching for food: a 'hovering' kestrel. Unfortunately, this mouse-eater is struggling. That is why Vogelbescherming and Sovon, together with several...

Ninth issue Experience Nature – Birds of Prey and Owls

Written in: Dutch • redactie • 12 Januari 2020

The stamps on the sheet 'Experience Nature - Birds of Prey and Owls' feature bird species that are facing particularly difficult times. All photographs depicting birds of prey (owls are predominantly nocturnal birds of prey) shown on the stamps by Frank Janse for the ninth...

Willem Meerkerk over Mouth-watering tart stamps with a sweet scent: I do see a trend in PostNL's new issues. More and more "self-adhesive" stamps, just like with the 2026 children's stamps. htt…

Haas over New Priority Mourning Stamp Netherlands: Unusual: new rates taking effect on a Sunday. PostNL faces a challenge. With priority, it is guaranteed that the next working day (Mon…

Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: Are there any online references to the translation of the different stamps? I've been looking around and am not having much luck.

Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: I bought one to frame as a gift to my father. And it was semi-difficult to find, but not too terribly expensive.

John Petterson over Drones, Drones on Drones: Nice article! It has inspired me to start collecting drones on stamps as well.

Otto over 2026 FIFA World Cup: Canada, Mexico and USA: The 2026 World Cup unfortunately turned out disastrously for our World Cup team; the beautiful stamps above are a balm for the wound for the football…