Waders
Robert Gillmor – Ringed Plover Quartet Cushion by We Love Cushions
£33.49This beautiful single-sided Ringed Plover Quartet cushion is based on Robert Gillmor’s iconic artwork, and would fit well in a garden-room, sitting-room or bedroom.
Ringed plovers are something of a challenge to those of us at Bee Eater HQ who were not brought up near water, but we’re getting better at picking them out by their distinctive facial plumage – as shown in this exquisite Robert Gillmor design. There’s something Zoro-like about a bird which appears to be wearing a mask!
An ideal house-warming gift for young and old alike.
Dimensions: 45 x 45cm • 100% Cotton/Linen Cover • Machine Washable • Removable Fibre Pad
Robert Gillmor – Preening Stilts Cushion by We Love Cushions
£33.49This beautiful single-sided Preening Stilts cushion is based on Robert Gillmor’s iconic artwork, and would fit well in a garden-room, sitting-room or bedroom.
Stilts are members of the same bird family as Avocets, and the similarities are clear – length of leg and the distinctive black and white of the plumage. However, the Stilt wins hearts with its spectacular pinky red legs. It has the longest leg, proportionate to body size, of any bird – they’re around 60% of its height. This gives them an advantage in the foraging stakes as they can wade out into deeper water than other birds, in a quest for insects which they pick from the surface of the water.
An ideal house-warming gift for young and old alike.
Dimensions: 45 x 45cm • 100% Cotton/Linen Cover • Machine Washable • Removable Fibre Pad
Spoonbill Greetings Card by i like birds
£2.95Spoonbill Greetings Card by i like birds
The spoonbill greetings card by i like birds shows the head and distinctive bill of this elegant bird in a stylised design against a turquoise background. It’s blank inside for your own message and is ideal for birthdays, moving house and other celebrations.
Spoonbills are wading birds which sweep the water side to side with their long bills to catch aquatic invertebrates and small fish. In the breeding season the black bill is marked by yellow at the tip, as shown in this design. Mix and match with i like birds gifts.
Dimensions square (13.8cm x 13.8cm) • 280gsm FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified card • Blank inside • White envelope • Cellophane wrapped • Standard Letter Post
Redshank Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Redshank Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this delicate wader in an exquisite water colour drawing.
The Redshank has beautiful orange-red legs, from which it gets its common name, and its long bill which it uses for digging around for worms is also orange at the base. It breeds in north west Europe and winters in sunnier climes – Africa, India and Indonesia. Its loud piping call is captured in lettering around the base of the mug. And if egg-spotting is your thing, there’s an illustration of the delicately speckled egg on the other side of the mug!
The Redshank mug by Madeleine Floyd makes an ideal gift for birthdays, house-warming and other occasions.
Capacity 300ml • Recommended hand wash only • High quality china • Dimensions: height 8cm x width 7cm
Curlew Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Curlew Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this large wading bird which is known as much for its haunting call as for its distinctive curved bill.
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. Its eponymous “coor-lew” call is depicted in lettering around the base of the mug, and if you’re into egg-spotting, the Curlew’s pale creamy egg with brown markings is depicted on the other side of the mug.
The Curlew mug by Madeleine Floyd makes an ideal gift for birthdays, house-warming and other occasions.
Capacity 300ml • Recommended hand wash only • High quality china • Dimensions: height 8cm x width 7cm
Seabirds Puffin Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Seabirds Puffin Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this comic sea bird alongside three of his other sea-going companions and some aquatic plantlife in an exquisite water colour drawing.
All four birds are on the conservation list and need protection, though the Puffin is the most endangered of them. The Common and Black-headed Gulls are both to be seen on Britain’s sea shores throughout the year. Confusingly, the Black-headed Gull is actually more common than the Common Gull and has a brown head (rather than a black one) for most of the year. The Sanderling is a passing visitor, prefering to spend cool summers in the Arctic! Its peculiar scampering gait is on account of it only having three toes where other waders have four.
The Seabirds Puffin mug by Madeleine Floyd makes an ideal gift for birthdays, house-warming and other occasions.
Capacity 300ml • Recommended hand wash only • High quality china • Dimensions: height 8cm x width 7cm
Heron & Avocet Cushion – Perkins & Morley
£37.99Heron & Avocet Cushion – Perkins & Morley
This cushion features two of our most regal waders, the Heron (latin name Ardea cinerea) and the Avocet (latin name Ardea cinerea). The vintage cushion range features exquisite watercolour illustrations by Jill Perkins of animal, birds and flora.
Dimensions: 45cm x 45cm (Cover Only) • Pad included • Cotton/ linen: Dry clean or hand wash only • Fibre cushion Pads are made from 50% recycled plastic • Zip Fastening • Print one side only (white linen back) • Happily hand made in UK •
Lapwing Cushion Wild Wood – Perkins & Morley
£37.99Lapwing Cushion Wild Wood- Perkins & Morley
This cushion features a beautiful Lapwing design. Latin name, Vanellus Vanellus, the Lapwing belongs to the Plover family and is also known as a ‘Peewit’ based on its distinctive call often heard on farm and moorland and by the sea.
This Lapwing cushion design (printed one side only), is based on an exquisite watercolour illustration by Jill Perkins of superimposed on a woodcut style background pattern of leaves, ferns and florals.
Dimensions: 45cm x 45cm (Cover Only) • Pad included • Cotton/ linen: Dry clean or hand wash only • Fibre cushion Pads are made from 50% recycled plastic • Zip Fastening • Print one side only (white linen back) • Happily hand made in UK •
Great White Egret linocut print by Katie Fuller
£45.00Great White Egret linocut print by Katie Fuller – Limited Edition
This beautiful Great White Egret linocut print by Katie Fuller shows this magnificent bird in flight, above wetland grasses. One of a limited edition of only 10, the print is numbered and signed by the artist.
The Great White Egret, though previously classed as a rare bird, has been removed from the red list as there are now several breeding pairs in the UK. Similar to the Heron though with black feet rather than yellow, the Great White Egret loves wetland and will even settle for a boggy field ditch!
• Unmounted • Dimensions: 30cm height x 21cm width including border • Printed on Kent paper • Supplied in clear cellophane envelope
Oystercatcher Chopping Board – Sandra Vick
£18.00Oystercatcher Chopping Board – Sandra Vick
This beautiful Oystercatcher chopping board features artist Sandra Vick’s black and white design of oystercatchers. Although depicted here in monochrome, oystercatchers’ smart black and white plumage is set off by bright orangey red legs and bills. Its call evokes mysterious moorland, and its wingspan is an impressive 30-odd inches!
The Oystercatcher chopping board is made of melamine and shows the oystercatcher design on one side and a wood effect on the reverse which is the chopping surface. Part of Sandra’s ‘names’ collection, on its decorative side this chopping board includes the Oystercatcher’s latin name – Haematopus ostralegus – as well as the many other monikers by which it is known!
Melamine • Dimensions: 29.2cm (H) x 25.4cm (diameter) • Handwash only
Large Godwit Jug – Sandra Vick
£33.00Large Godwit Jug – Sandra Vick
This beautiful large Godwit jug features artist Sandra Vick’s black and white design of godwits – long-legged waders – around the bottom of the bone china jug. Superlatives abound in relation to this migrant; in 2020 a male godwit flew over 7,500 miles non-stop in its migration from Alaska to New Zealand, setting a new record for avian non-stop flight, but in the 1600s it was known as “the daintiest of dishes”, which may have contributed to its decline – it is currently on the Red list of endangered bird species.
Perfect as a milk or cream jug, or a flower vase , the large godwit jug makes an ideal gift for birthdays, house-warming and other occasions.
568ml (1 pint) • Fine Bone China • Dimensions: 13.7cm (H) x 7.5-9cm (diameter) • Dishwasher and Microwave Proof
Woodcock linocut print by Katie Fuller
£35.00Woodcock linocut print by Katie Fuller
In this Woodcock linocut print by Katie Fuller, the artist captures both the sturdiness and the excellent camouflage of the bird’s plumage.
A wading bird, the woodcock lives in woodlands and on heathland. It is mostly nocturnal and if disturbed will fly in a zig-zag pattern between the trees before dropping back to the ground and the safety of the undergrowth. The woodcocks that breed in the UK are mostly residents, but they are joined by wintering birds from Finland and Russia. Male woodcocks perform a display flight known as roding, taking to the air at dawn and at dusk to patrol large areas of forest and heathland, calling in a series of grunts and squeaks, competing with other males to attract females.
The print is a limited edition, signed and numbered by the artist and would make a perfect gift for housewarming, birthdays or other celebrations.
Unmounted • Dimensions: image 20cm height x 14cm width (23.5cm x 20.1cm including border) • Printed on paper • Supplied in clear cellophane envelope