Gift guide · Updated October 2026
Bird Lover Gifts for Her (and for Mom)
Gifts for a woman who loves birds are often pink and sentimental. This list is not that. It is for the mother, sister or friend who keeps a feeder stocked and a notebook by the window, and who will notice if the bird on the box is wrong. Every one of these pieces is drawn to the field guide.
The cardinals are here first, because they matter to a lot of people. Many people feel a cardinal at the feeder is a visit from someone they miss, and it is a gentle thing to give. Nothing here is sold as a tribute, and nothing needs explaining. After that come caps, crewnecks, totes, tumblers and journals, all made to order. For a longer look, see Gifts for birders.
Cardinals
Cardinals are often given in remembrance, and they stay in the yard all winter. A quiet gift for someone who watches for one.
The one red bird nobody has to look up. Males and females both sing, and both stay put all winter. A 16 inch pillow for the chair by the window.
Something to wear
Heavyweight cotton and embroidered caps, nothing cutesy.
A Scarlet Tanager printed large across a heavyweight garment-dyed crewneck, for the person who counts the first arrival in May.
The Carolina Wren sings all year, teakettle-teakettle, and this crewneck gives the loud little bird the whole chest. In a relaxed unisex fit.
Dawn Chorus, printed large on a garment-dyed heavyweight crewneck. Made for the early walk when everyone in the trees is already talking.
A painted bunting on a beautyberry vine, embroidered in full-colour thread on a coastal washed cap. People assume someone let a parrot out.
Cedar waxwings on a winter berry branch, the polite birds that pass a berry down the line. Embroidered in full-colour thread.
A Cedar Waxwing in silky tan, black mask and yellow tail band, with the red wax tips drawn the way a birder sees them.
To carry
Edge-to-edge prints, an inside pocket and room for the field guide.
A ruby-throated hummingbird at a white moonflower against a dark ground. A ruby-throat weighs about as much as a penny and flies across the Gulf each spring.
A western tanager among bright leaves and flowers, in bold, loose colour. His red face comes from the insects he eats, not his own pigment.
Two ruby-throated hummingbirds at trumpet vine under a full moon, in the style of a Japanese woodblock. The back is the vine and the moon.
Plate II of our field plates, herons engraved in cream on a faux-leather crossbody in midnight or deep teal, with a detachable strap and a wrist strap.
For the table and the chair by the window
Things that live in the house and get used every day.
An American flamingo on one leg on coral pink, with Rosé Hour in big cream letters. A 12 oz insulated wine tumbler with a clear lid.
A male ruby-throated hummingbird at trumpet vine, drawn as an Art Nouveau banner. A 12 oz insulated stainless tumbler, printed all the way round.
A great egret in full breeding plumes, its lace-fine veil spilling across a blush pink ground. A 15 oz ceramic mug with a pink inside and handle.
There is no blue pigment in that blue: it is light scattered by the structure of the feather. A soft pillow cut to the bird's outline.
A one-ink engraving of the largest heron in North America in the old toile manner, on both sides of an 18 in linen-feel pillow, one side reversed.
A Snowy Egret in a few sumi brushstrokes on a pale ground, with fine minute ticks and no numerals. The quietest clock we make.
For notes and for walking
A place to write down the first one of spring, and shoes to wear to look for it.
The male Painted Bunting looks coloured in by committee. A hand-coloured copperplate plate on the cover, 150 blank pages inside for drawing it.
An owl against the moon on a hardcover field journal with lined pages. For the people who stand in a field at dusk and wait.
A ruby-throated hummingbird at a moonflower vine, painted edge to edge on deep wine canvas high-tops. In men's and women's sizes. Nobody owns these already.
Questions
Are cardinals a good gift for someone who has lost a loved one?
Many people see a cardinal at the feeder as a visit from someone they miss, so a cardinal pillow is a gentle gift. A few lines of your own in the card go well with it, and the rest can be left to her.
How long will it take to arrive?
Everything is made to order. Allow up to 10 days for making, then 5 to 10 business days in the post within the US. You get a tracking email the day it ships.
Can I send a gift card?
Yes. Gift cards are emailed on the day you choose and never expire.
Will the price show on the packing slip?
No. Prices are left off the packing slip, so the parcel can go straight to her.
















































