BELGIUM ~High Fens – Eifel Nature Park ~

A nice nature view showing "The Rurbusch beechwood"...with fantastic stamp and first day cancellation from Andre Buzin a Belgian artist famous in the philatelic world specialized in paintings of  animals and flora...his stamps are always very impressive by the quality and precision of their design... Thanks a lot Johan for another unique Andre Buzin item!! http://johanpostcards.blogspot.be/



Lovely and cute first day cancellation  (15-02-2014)
from the serie:
Buzin otherwise - Intimate animal portraits stamps ( Lynx)

The High Fens, which were declared a nature reserve in 1957, are an upland area, a plateau region in the province of Liège, in the east of Belgium and adjoining parts of Germany, between the Ardennes and the Eifel highlands.

The High Fens are the largest nature reserve or park in Belgium. Its highest point, at 694 metres (2,277 ft) above sea level, is the Signal de Botrange near Eupen, and also the highest point in Belgium. A tower 6 metres (20 ft) high was built here that reaches 700 metres (2,297 ft) above sea level. The reserve is a rich ecological endowment of Belgium covered with alpine sphagnum bogs both on the plateau and in the valley basin; the bogs, which are over 10,000 years old, with their unique subalpine flora, fauna and microclimate, are key to the conservation work of the park.

 In 1966, the European Council awarded the "Diploma of Conservation" to the High Fens, for their ecological value.

BELGIUM ~Ringed plover- Andre Buzin~

Beautiful bird postcard showing the "Ringed plover" by the famous Belgian artist Andre Buzin and fantastic stamp cancellation. He is a Belgian bird stamp designer, and regularly cooperates with nature conservation organization where a percentage of his stamp souvenirs are fund-raising for certain nature projects. Thanks a million Johan for sending me "again "  a soooooo special and unique item!!!^__^


 A special stamp cancellation was available with a temporary post office on 25-05-2013 and signed by the artist itself!!

To celebrate  20 years "Vlaamse Gaai" S.P.A.B. (study group of the Birds of André Buzin).

The ringed plover is a small short-legged wading bird.
It is brownish grey above and whitish below.
Their breeding habitat is open gravel areas near freshwater, including gravel pits, islands and river edges in Europe and western Asia.
These birds forage for food on muddy areas, usually by sight and eat insects and worms.
They are migratory and winter in Africa.

BELGIUM ~ Cover- Andre Buzin~

Thanks to Johan I got a really wonderful cover today.:-)
Its from his visit to an exhibition about our well-known philatelic artist, Andre Buzin because we are celebrating the "25th anniversery of the Belgian "birds" stamps of Andre Buzin this year.
It has a great speciale cancellation and is signed by the artist himself!! Thanks a lot Johan for this unique item...



André Buzin (born 1946 in Dinant) is a Belgian artist who paints animals and flowers. He is known on the philatelic scene for the Birds series, a definitive stamp series of Belgium.

Buzin designed his first stamps for Zaire in 1984. In Africa, he also created some stamp series for Mauritania and Rwanda. Almost all depicted local animals, but he designs stamps for the 1984 Summer Olympics.

His major series have been issuing by Belgian Post. In 1984 he prepared some paintings figuring birds that were accepted by the postal authority. They became 1985 the first stamps of the Birds series, still in use more than twenty years later. Thank to this series he was awarded by about ten philatelic artistic prices in Belgium and the "Prix du Roi" in 1995.