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Sunday, December 11, 2011
"Post Offices with Christmas Names. Interested customers can write to these Post Offices for postmarks to keep or to share with friends. Enclose a stamped, addressed card or letter in another envelope or box labeled “Christmas re-mailing” and address it to the postmaster of one of the towns listed below. Please allow enough time for postmarking, re-mailing, and delivery."
See it: http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/christmas-post-office-names.pdf
Currently available pictorial postmarks of all themes - explore this (I prefer the PDF format)
http://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/pb2011.htm
Currently available pictorial postmarks of all themes - explore this (I prefer the PDF format)
http://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/pb2011.htm
See older postmarks from my collection:
Various themes (or simple day cancel) on postmarks from around the world:
Not a Scandinavian Beauty, but a Scandiacus avian beauty: "The SNOWY OWL (Bubo scandiacus) [...] also known in North America as the Arctic Owl, Great White Owl or Harfang." I show you my MAXICARDS from USA and ROMANIA
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"The Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. The Snowy Owl was first classified in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who developed binomial nomenclature to classify and organize plants and animals. The bird is also known in North America as the Arctic Owl, Great White Owl or Harfang. Until recently, it was regarded as the sole member of a distinct genus, as Nyctea scandiaca, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data (Olsen et al. 2002) shows that it is very closely related to the horned owls in the genus Bubo. The Snowy Owl is the official bird of Quebec."
The Snowy Owl fights occasionally with individuals from the other large owl species :
1) "The Great Horned Owl, (Bubo virginianus), also known as the Tiger Owl, is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas."
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2) "The Great Grey Owl or Lapland Owl (Strix nebulosa) is a very large owl, distributed across the Northern Hemisphere. In some areas it is also called the Great Gray Ghost, Phantom of the north, Cinereous Owl, Spectral Owl, Lapland Owl, Spruce Owl, Bearded Owl and Sooty Owl".
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Strix_nebulosa_in_flight.jpg |
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"Though Snowy Owls have few predators, the adults are very watchful and are equipped to defend against any kind of threat towards them or their offspring. During the nesting season, the owls regularly defend their nests against arctic foxes, corvids and swift-flying jaegers; as well as dogs, gray wolves and avian predators. Males defend the nest by standing guard nearby while the female incubates the eggs and broods the young. Both sexes attack approaching predators, dive-bombing them and engaging in distraction displays to draw the predator away from a nest. They also compete directly for lemmings and other prey with several predators, including rough-legged hawks, golden eagles,peregrine falcons, gyrfalcons, jaegers, glaucous gulls, short-eared owls, great horned owls, common ravens, wolves, arctic foxes, and ermine.
Some species nesting near snowy owl nests, such as the snow goose, seem to benefit from the protection of snowy owls that drive competing predators out of the area."
"Snowy Owl calls are varied, but the alarm call is a barking, almost quacking krek-krek; the female also has a softer mewling pyee-pyee or prek-prek."
[MY NOTE: if the female gets upset by the male, then her song changes into yu-litl-prek-prek. Don't quote me on that. Just kidding! :) ]
"Hedwig is Harry Potter's Snowy Owl [...] At the start of Deathly Hallows, Hedwig is killed during Harry's escape from Privet Drive by a stray Killing Curse (in the film version, she is killed while attacking a pursuing Death Eater trying to hurt Harry). According to Rowling, Hedwig's life represents Harry's innocence.[23]
Although the character of Hedwig is female, she is played on film by male owls (female snowy owls have dark patches of plumage, while only the males are completely white, as Hedwig is)." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_creatures_in_Harry_Potter#Hedwig
[MY NOTE: does that mean that the most beautiful female (snowy owl) is a male?]
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Some feedback received about me and my blog here
[DORIN'S NOTE: There are over 100 million websites.]
"There are 1,699,250 sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Dorincard.blogspot.com.
About 43% of visitors to the site come from France, where it has attained a traffic rank of 152,077.
About 80% of visits to the site consist of only one pageview (i.e., are bounces).
Dorincard.blogspot.com's visitors view an average of 1.5 unique pages per day.
Visitors to the site spend roughly two minutes on each pageview and a total of three minutes on the site during each visit."
- Maximum Delight
- Feb 21, 2011
Postcards and stamps, mainly featuring mammals and birds but Dorincard also has other creations
and interests he likes to share.
His enthusiasm for Maximum cards (a postcard and a similar themed stamps sent through the
postal system) shines through.
He shows how he gets the right card, stamp and postmark together.
Visiting his site you will also learn things about the natural world told with a dry sense of humour,
possibly with a play on words, and a unique style of headings.
Topical and informative both for the enthusiast and casual visitor.
1,699,251
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