Birds
Yellowhammer Flock Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Yellowhammer Flock Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson is a reminder of just why this brightly coloured little bird is such a favourite of the British hedgerow.
Sadly, though they’re a favourite they are now rarely seen. The lack of food and decline in their nesting habitat over the last 30 years means they are now on the Red List. Both its familiar name and its Latin one – Emberiza citrinella – reference the bright yellow of the male’s head and underparts, and this little bird also has a conical bill, ideal for cracking the seeds which are its staple diet. All the birds in this card design are yellowhammers but in fact, during the winter they frequently flock with other species like buntings, finches, and sparrows especially when foraging for seeds or roosting in dense bushes or hedges.
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 15CM x 15CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Starlings Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Starlings Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson captures the chilliness of a winter’s day when birds are visible, silhouetted against a cold sky with bare twigs all around.
We feel that the starling is somewhat misunderstood! When she’s not murmurating around with her mates, the starling can often be found in UK gardens, showing off her glossy green and purple-black feathers. Though famed for their incredible murmurations of flocks sometimes numbering tens of thousands, Starling numbers have been greatly declining over the past few decades and they are currently on the Red list.
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 15CM x 15CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Curlews Loch Crinan Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Curlews Loch Crinan Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson features a flock of curlews flying over Crinan House on the West Coast of Scotland. With a grey heron keeping an eye on them from the loch, and the sea in the distance, the image is a masterpiece of composition, scale and colour.
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 12.7CM x 17.7CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Barn Owl and Steam Train Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Barn Owl and Steam Train Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson features a barn owl with wings outstretched, flying over a snowy landscape with a train below.
A silent and stealthy hunter the Barn Owl is equipped with super sensitive hearing; the left ear picks up sounds from below, the right from those above, allowing it to locate its prey with great accuracy. In this image, the owl is soaring above a steam train on the Watercress Line, named because in earlier times it was used to take watercress from the village of Alresford in Hampshire to the markets in London.
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 15CM x 15CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Dipper Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Dipper Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson features chocolate brown dippers, perched on rocks in a river surrounded by bright yellow kingcups, or marsh marigolds.
This freshwater songbird is highly adapted to thrive in its environment. From its extra thick plumage and enlarged preen gland which makes it effectively waterproof, to its flipper-like wings for rapid diving, the nictitating “third eyelid” membrane which gives it optimal vision even after underwater activities and the strength of its claws which allow it to navigate the rocky river bed – it’s an all-in champion!
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 15CM x 15CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Diving Eider Ducks Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50If you’ve been lucky enough to see eider ducks you must have been in the north of England or in Scotland as these smart seaducks only inhabit our northern waters. The Diving Eider Ducks Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson captures the speed and determination of their underwater feeding.
The male eider is a black-and-white duck, with a pale green patch at the back of the head, pinkish breast and pale yellow-grey bill. The female is greyish-brown with delicate barring.
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 12.7CM x 17.7CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Puffins and Pufflings Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50Not many of us have had the privilege of seeing pufflings – as the chicks of Puffins are called – but we can all revel in the fluffy joy of this Puffins and Pufflings Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson. Puffins mate for life and each couple will rear one puffling a season, taking it in turns to hunt for sand eels or sit on the nest.
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 12.7CM x 17.7CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Tern Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Tern Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson captures all the distinctive features of the Common Tern, particularly its carroty-red bill tipped with black and the angularity of its wings, black cap and bill.
Noisy, assertive and a master of the “plunge-dive” method of fishing, the Common Tern is also known as the Sea Swallow because of its long tail-streamers.
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 15CM x 15CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Herons by the Sea Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Herons by the Sea Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson shows statuesque Grey Herons waiting patiently, on one leg, for their prey! We love the strength of this composition and the contrast of those slender, vertical legs with the delicate seaweed and sinuous reflections in the pools of seawater around them.
A bird of wetland areas, the Grey Heron is a piscivore, hunting for its prey in both fresh and saltwater, and can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast.
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 15CM x 15CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Black headed Gull Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Black headed Gull Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson is a welcome addition to our range of cards as gulls are so often seen as pests and are rarely favourably illustrated!
We rather love ’em, especially these smart black headed ones (even though that head is actually chocolatey brown and then only for the summer months, returning to white for the rest of the year!). They live in a range of habitats here – farmland, wetlands and coastlines, on saltmarshes and on islands in flooded gravel pits and reservoirs.
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 15CM x 15CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Curlews and Cotton Grass Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Curlews and Cotton Grass Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson is something of a favourite here at Bee Eater HQ. The strong composition illustrates the Curlew’s iconic bill as well as the stark environment it lives in.
Grasslands, farmland, heath and moor all play host to the Curlew who uses its long down-curved bill to search the mud for worms, shellfish and shrimps. You may hear its eponymous “coor-lew” call before you see it as it blends in well with its surroundings.
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 15CM x 15CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post
Puffins Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50Puffins greetings card by Rachel Hudson captures the ungainly descent and landing of puffins returning to the cliff top with bills full of sandeels for their mates who have remained on the nest. Puffins mate for life but take a break from each other over Winter before reuniting at their breeding grounds in Spring (let’s just hope it’s not too Auk-ward when they meet…)
This capitvating card is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for birthdays, thank yous, invitations and housewarmings.
Dimensions: 15CM x 15CM • Printed on matt, uncoated 300gsm mixed board from responsible sources • blank inside • supplied with eco kraft envelope • Standard letter post