Russia

Thank you very much Vladimir for this wonderful cover from Russia! The WWF stamps were issued in 1993 and picture the Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris).

WWF Lithuania - European bison or wisent (Bison bonasus)

Macedonia

Thank you Ana for this nice cover celebrating 60 years of The Union of Philatelists of Macedonia (1950-2010).

WWF Austria - European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)

WWF Sweden - Birds of Sweden

1. Caspian tern - Sterna caspia
   
2. Lesser white-fronted Goose - Anser erythropus
   
3. White-tailed sea eagle - Haliaeetus albicilla
4. White-backed woodpecker - Dendrocopos leucotos
   

WWF Finland - Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus)

Croatia

Thank you Zeljko for this special cover and postmark picturing the local old bridge.

New covers from Slovakia

Thank you Robert

Peru (# 94)

Thanks to Tristan for this letter sent from Peru. Peru is country # 94 in my cover collection. Note that this cover was not franked correctly, there's a 'postage due' message on the cover.

Australian coin covers

Courtesy of Brian

Malaysia

If there is one thing I really don't like, it must be spiders... So I don't know whether to thank Terence or not for this creepy cover :)

France

Very impressive Obélix stamp from France, thank you François!

First cover from Oman! (country # 93)

Covers sent on Febr. 20, 2010

• Andrzej Bek - Poland
• Alexander Karmanovsky - Russia
  
• Myron dela Paz - Philippines
• Ana Racic - Macedonia
  
• Florian Tirk - Austria
  
• Robert Brnska - Slovakia (x4)
• Matthew Cassetta - Trinidad (x2)
  
• David Jastrzebski - France
  
• Salem Krima - Tunesia
• Clarence George - Maldives
• Benedikt Waage - Iceland
  
• Zeljko Vasilik - Croatia
  
• Volodymyr Sulyma - Ukraine
• Gabriel Hoffman - Argentina
• Sabel René Quintanilla - El Salvador
  
• Olivier Szerbowski - France
• Christer Martensson - Sweden
• Apichati Supastrachiva - Thailand
• Lazer Pistulli - Albania
• Serbanescu Ctin - Romania
  
• Jesus Moret Y Ferrer - Venezuela
  
• Vladimir Gritsay - Russia
• Wu Wei Yi - R.O.C.
  
• Eric Contesse - France
• José Luis Peron - Brasil
  
• Eduardo Sudnicki - Venezuela
  
• Joyce Lin - Singapore
• Hai Huang - China
  
• Tristan Juvet - Canada
• Ben Cooper - Australia
  
• Freddy Quiroz & Elena Mendez - Panama (x2)

Olympic cover from Slovakia

Thank you Robert for this very nice cover with Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games stamp picturing bobsleigh. Maybe I should consider to start a topical collection on Olympic Games too, I seem to like these stamps a lot. (see Macau post)

WWF China - Giant Panda

Belgium

Christmas and New Year covers

Thanks to David, Jerzy, Joyce, Ben and Dragan for their best wishes.

Animals on stamps and covers from Iran

Thanks to Ali

Germany

Turkey

New covers from Turkey, courtesy of Ahmet.

WWF stamps from Macau

Many thanks to my friend Myron for this very nice cover and for the mint WWF stamps!

Both stamps on the cover were issued at the occasion of the 2008 Bejing Olympic Summer Games. Both stamps picture the olympic torch.

The WWF stamps were issued when Macau was controlled by Portugal. Pictured on the stamps is the Asian Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Pangolin)

New Belgian stamps (18/01/10 & 20/02/10)

Here are the pictures of the first special issues of the new year. The pictures of the 2 definitives (Buzin birds € 4.60 and € 0.05) will be published later because I'm waiting for good pictures.

Next Saturday February 20, 2010 I'm going to Roeselare (if all goes as planned :)) for the special preview sale. I've prepared a lot of letters, so maybe you'll get something from me very soon :)

1. Antverpia 2010 - European philately championship
   
   
   
   
2. Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum
   
   
   
   
3. Youth philately - Largo Winch
   
   
   
   
4. Literature - famous writers who lived in Brussels
   
   
   
   
5. Body donation