Birds
Bullfinch Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Bullfinch Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson shows a very cheery male Bullfinch on a branch with snow falling
An adaptable feeder, the bullfinch will eat buds and shoots in spring and, handily, has a special sac at the foot of its mouth to store food. During the winter months it switches to seeds and berries, extracting the oil-rich kernels from bramble (blackberry) berries while discarding the husks!
The Bullfinch Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for Christmas, 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
Goldcrest in Fir Tree Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Goldcrest in Fir Tree Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson shows one of our favourite birds, here at Bee Eater Gifts HQ!
The Goldcrest is Britain’s smallest bird, weighing in at around the same as a 20p piece. Its colours, speed of flight and tiny size are very distinctive. The yellow and black stripe on the head stands as a crest when they are alarmed or trying to attract a mate. Rachel Hudson’s image shows the bird perched in a fir tree with snow falling.
The Goldcrest in Fir Tree Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for Christmas, 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
Heron and Frozen Pond Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Heron and Frozen Pond Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson shows a statuesque Grey Heron waiting patiently, at the side of a frozen pond whilst moorhens attempt to take off and land!
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. During winter – when the mortality rate inevitably increases -herons abandon their group breeding colonies (heronries) and hunt alone in open areas, wetlands, rivers, and farmland.
The Heron and Frozen Pond Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson is blank inside for your own special message making it suitable for Christmas, 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
Flock of Crows Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Flock of Crows Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson is a reminder of the aerial abilities of one of our largest corvids and gives the lie to the saying “as the crow flies” – because they don’t navigate in straight lines! In this illustration, the artist shows them wheeling over rooves and trees towards evening.
Crows hold a special place in British folklore, no doubt because of their exceptional skills – they recognise human faces, remember who treats them well (and who doesn’t) and occasionally reward the patience of those who feed them with small gifts of shiny objects.
The Flock of Crows Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson 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
Little Egret and Boat House Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Little Egret and Boat House Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson captures the distinctive shape of the Little Egret in flight, with legs trailing, over a salt marsh at Newtown Nature Reserve on the Isle of Wight. Oystercatchers forage in the shallows below and a group has taken flight too. A cormorant watches on from a post, golden plover graze in the background and a curlew enters the scene top left – what a wonderful array of coastal birds!
The Little Egret has only lately become a familiar sight in the UK and can now be found along the south coast and in East Anglia. It eats mostly fish, though amphibians, small reptiles, mammals and birds as well as crustaceans, molluscs and insects should all be vigilant when this bird is at large.
The Little Egret and Boat House Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson 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
Starlings on Harbour Wall Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Starlings on Harbour Wall Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson captures something of the starlings’ endurance as they hunker down on a harbour wall to the chiming of masts from sailboats.
Starlings can be seen all over the UK. Their glossy green and purple-black feathers are speckled. 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.
The Starlings on Harbour Wall Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson 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
Curlew and Grass of Parnassus Greetings Card by Rachel Hudson
£3.50The Curlew and Grass of Parnassus 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 illustration was done by the artist by a sea loch in the Inner Hebrides.
This captivating 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
Buzzard Greetings Card by The Wildlife Trusts
£2.95Buzzard Greetings Card by The Wildlife Trusts
The Buzzard greetings card by The Wildlife Trusts is blank inside for your own message and is ideal for birthdays, moving house and Winter celebrations.
Having made a magnificent comeback in recent years, the Buzzard is now the UK’s most populous raptor! It is sometimes heard before it’s spotted, by its distinctive, mournful, cat-like mewing or “kee-yaa” call.
Dimensions square (15.3cm x 15.3cm) • FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified 100% recycled card • Blank inside • Brown 100% recycled envelope • Alcohol-free print • Vegetable-based inks • Printed with Green Energy • Standard Letter Post
Blue Tit and Berries Greetings Card by The Wildlife Trusts
£2.95Blue Tit and Berries Greetings Card by The Wildlife Trusts
The Blue Tit and Berries greetings card by The Wildlife Trusts is blank inside for your own message and is ideal for birthdays, moving house and Winter celebrations.
Her latin name – Cyanistes Caeruleus – clearly identifies the blue tit by her beautiful colours. With a body mass of just 10g she’s small but beautifully formed, featured here perched on a frosty twig and looking forward to feasting on red berries!
Dimensions square (15.3cm x 15.3cm) • FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified 100% recycled card • Blank inside • Brown 100% recycled envelope • Alcohol-free print • Vegetable-based inks • Printed with Green Energy • Standard Letter Post
Singing Robin Greetings Card by The Wildlife Trusts
£2.95Singing Robin Greetings Card by The Wildlife Trusts
The Singing Robin greetings card by The Wildlife Trusts is blank inside for your own message and is ideal for birthdays, moving house and other celebrations.
The robin is one of the UK’s most well-loved garden birds and is considered by some to be our national bird. This little bird’s song is as distinctive as his colours, and is at its strongest in winter in order to defend territory and attract the attentions of a mate. Whilst most survive barely more than a year, the oldest robin clocked up 19 years! The last to bed and the first to rise, the robin is a year round companion to gardeners and tolerates humans more readily than most garden birds.
Dimensions square (15.3cm x 15.3cm) • FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified 100% recycled card • Blank inside • Brown 100% recycled envelope • Alcohol-free print • Vegetable-based inks • Printed with Green Energy • Standard Letter Post
Kingfisher Greetings Card by The Wildlife Trusts
£2.95Kingfisher Greetings Card by The Wildlife Trusts
The Kingfisher greetings card by The Wildlife Trusts is blank inside for your own message and is ideal for birthdays, moving house and other celebrations.
This card features one of the UK’s most colourful birds – the Kingfisher (Latin name Alcedo atthis). If you’ve been lucky enough to see one, it may only have been flash of blue flying down a river, but what a thrill! They feed on small fish such as minnows and sticklebacks.
Dimensions square (15.3cm x 15.3cm) • FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified 100% recycled card • Blank inside • Brown 100% recycled envelope • Alcohol-free print • Vegetable-based inks • Printed with Green Energy • Standard Letter Post
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