Mugs
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
Herring Gull Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Herring Gull Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this seabird in an exquisite water colour drawing.
Not the most popular of birds due to its noisiness, the Herring Gull is nonetheless a magnificent bird, with pale pink legs and feet. Seen increasingly in urban settings due to the safer nesting options and a more reliable source of food, this seabird is sadly in decline.
There’s nothing quiet about the herring gull and its distinctive call is also captured in lettering on the mug. And if egg-spotting’s your thing, there’s an illustration of a delicately coloured egg on the other side of the mug!
The Herring Gull 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
Chaffinch Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Chaffinch Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this gorgeously plumaged bird in an exquisite water colour drawing.
A flash of white on the wings and white outer tail feathers is often the first visual cue that chaffinches are about. Their markings help to camouflage them when feeding on the ground. Their call is loud and they’re often heard before they’re seen!
The chaffinch’s call is also captured in lettering on the mug. And if egg-spotting’s your thing, there’s an illustration of its egg on the other side of the mug!
The Chaffinch 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
Coal Tit Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Coal Tit Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this tiny tit in an exquisite water colour drawing.
A busy little bird, the Coal Tit is rarely still, and feeds avidly in conifers. It has a distinctive grey back, black cap, and white patch at the back of its neck which makes it easy to identify especially when on a feeder. Its trilling 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 Coal Tit 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
Crested Tit Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95Seen only in the north of Scotland, the Crested Tit is small but beautifully formed, and featured here by artist Madeleine Floyd in an exquisite water colour drawing.
A busy little bird, the Crested Tit is rarely still, and feeds avidly in old Scots Pine trees. Its call – a happy ‘troolooloo’ type trill which is high pitched and repeated over and over – 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 Crested Tit 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
Yellow Wagtail Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Yellow Wagtail Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this much loved bird in an exquisite water colour drawing.
The yellow wagtail, rarer than its pied (ie black and white) relative, is a ground nesting bird. Its nest is a toasty affair – grass on the outside and hair, wool or fur on the inside! The birds overwinter in Africa, arriving back in Britain in the spring where they are often to be seen feeding around the feet of cattle and other grazing livestock.
The call is captured in lettering around the bottom of the mug, and if egg-spotting’s your thing, there’s an illustration of a delicately coloured egg on the other side of the mug!
The Yellow Wagtail 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
Thrush Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Thrush Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this much loved garden song bird in an exquisite water colour drawing.
The thrush’s song, with lyrical musical phrases, is as much the reason for our fondness of it, as its speckled breast and its intriguing eating habits – bashing snails against stones to remove the protective shell.
The call, captured in lettering on the mug, doesn’t quite do this songster justice, but if egg-spotting’s your thing, there’s an illustration of a delicately coloured egg on the other side of the mug!
The Thrush 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
Wren Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Wren Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this much loved garden bird in an exquisite water colour drawing.
Weighing as little as 7g, the wren is a truly tiny troglodyte (this is its Latin name, meaning cave-dweller). Hard to spot due to its size, hedge-coloured plumage and rapid darting movements, the wren’s flicking tail is often the visual cue that alerts us to its presence.
More often heard than seen, the Wren has a call the volume of which belies its diminutive size, and this is captured in lettering on the mug. And if egg-spotting’s your thing, there’s an illustration of a delicately coloured egg on the other side of the mug!
The Wren 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
Gannet Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Gannet Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this seabird in an exquisite water colour drawing.
The Bee Eater staff summer outing always takes us to Bempton Cliffs, the gannet’s largest mainland breeding colony in Britain. A voracious feeder who dives from height and at speed to take the fish it wants, the gannet has become a byword for greed.
There’s nothing quiet about the gannet and its metallic call is also captured in lettering on the mug. And if egg-spotting’s your thing, there’s an illustration of a delicately coloured egg on the other side of the mug!
The Gannet 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
Lapwing Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Lapwing Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this farmland bird in an exquisite water colour drawing.
With their smart iridescent plumage, distinctive round-winged shape in flight and haunting wail, lapwings can often be spotted during winter on ploughed fields. A group of lapwings is called a ‘deceit’ – named after the way the parent birds lure predators away from their nests by feigning a broken wing!
The Lapwing’s signature “peewit” call is also captured in lettering on the mug. And if egg-spotting’s your thing, there’s an illustration of a delicately coloured egg on the other side of the mug!
The Lapwing 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
Great Spotted Woodpecker Mug by Madeleine Floyd
£12.95The Great Spotted Woodpecker Mug by Madeleine Floyd features this secretive woodland bird in an exquisite water colour drawing.
Habitually found near dead wood on account of the abundance of tasty grubs to be found there, the Great Spotted Woodpecker is distinguished from other (lesser) models by the bright red patch under his tail. The bird’s brain is protected from the unpleasant effects of hammering on a hard surface for every meal by shock absorbers where his bill meets his skull!
The Great Spotted Woodpecker’s drumming call is also captured in lettering on the mug. And if egg-spotting’s your thing, there’s an illustration of a delicately coloured egg on the other side of the mug!
The Great Spotted Woodpecker 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