Last time started on the Birds and their nests series from the Swift comic, so here are last images drawn by Raymond Sheppard from that book and the missing one.
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p.41 Kingfisher
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p.43 Lapwing - or Pee-wit
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p.45 Long-tailed Tit
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p.47 Magpie
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p.55 Mute Swan
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p.63 Reed Warbler
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p.65 Rook
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Because I always have trouble telling my crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws apart, I'm adding the Swift presentation for the above too. So far I have grasped that rooks have lighter beaks than the others mentioned!
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Swift 4 January 1958
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p.71 Song Thrush
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p.79 Wren
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The one that did not appear in this title when reprinting the series was the Kestrel
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Swift 15 March 1958 The Kestrel
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Now as an extra special treat are two more that I haven't mentioned yet as they appeared at the start of the series - the first on 21 December 1957
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Swift 21 December 1957 Christmas dinner for the birds
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| Swift 28 December 1957 A Christmas card for your shelf |
There are couple of other similar images by Sheppard but I'll save them for another day. Meanwhile I should say, similar to Animals and their young, there are images in the Birds and their nests book that are not drawn by Sheppard. Tom Adams' run began on 24 May 1958 with the Skylark and went through to 11 November 1958 with the Ruff. The others in the book not by Sheppard are:
- Avocet
- Common Tern
- Cormorant
- Crossbill
- Cuckoo
- Dartford Warbler
- Eider Duck
- Goldcrest
- Golden Oriole
- Goldfinch
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Moorhen
- Nightingale
- Peregrine Falcon
- Redstart
- Ruff
- Skylark
- Swallow
- Swift
- Tawny Owl
