Raymond Sheppard and Swift Comic: Birds and their nests (Part One)

Cover for Birds and their nests

 

Back in 2014, David Slinn helped me with first-hand information on the two series in the comic, Swift which Raymond Sheppard illustrated. The first I presented was "Animals and their young", now it's time for "Birds and their nests". 

I've scanned the following from this reprint title from 1962 by Longacre Press. It matches the Animals book in size and colour but interestingly the title of the series is different

Here's the index to show you what appears and just like the previous book there are one or two images missed out - for what reason, we have no idea. Each image appeared on the right hand page with a description of the bird on the left hand page - thus the cover image's description appears at the back - here.

Birds and their nests p.80

Below are the issue dates for which Sheppard images appeared in the original comic with the 'missing' image highlighted which you'll find at the end :

4 Jan 1958	The Rook
11 Jan 1958	The Song Thrush
18 Jan 1958	The Mute Swan
25 Jan 1958	The Blue Tit
1 Feb 1958	The Lapwing
8 Feb 1958	The Green Woodpecker
15 Feb 1958	The Magpie
22 Feb 1958	The Wren
1 Mar 1958	The Heron
8 Mar 1958	The Blackbird
15 Mar 1958	The Kestrel
22 Mar 1958	The Chaffinch
29 Mar 1958	The Jay
5 Apr 1958	Long-tailed Tit
12 Apr 1958	The Kingfisher
19 Apr 1958	The Golden Eagle
26 Apr 1958	The Black-headed Gull
3 May 1958	The Great Crested Grebe
10 May 1958	The Reed Warbler
17 May 1958	The Barn Owl

p.5 Barn Owl

p.7 Blackbird

To illustrate how these appeared with some text, here's the example from Swift 8 March 1958

Swift 8 March 1958

p.9 Black-headed gull

p.11 Chaffinch

p.27 Golden Eagle

p.33 Great Crested Grebe

p.35 Green Woodpecker

p.37 Heron

p.39 Jay

Part Two to follow soon