Museum Selection Set of 2 RSPB Birds Porcelain Mugs
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RSPB A set of two porcelain mugs supporting the RSPB. Decorated with charming illustrations depicting one of the eight varieties of tit to be seen in the UK alongside one of the most fleetingly glimpsed, the longtailed tit, and a kingfisher. Longtailed tits, called ‘bumbarrels’ (just one of the birds many curious vernacular names) are, like all the tit family, gregarious and excitable birds. ‘And coy bumbarrels twenty in a drove, Flit down the hedgerow in the frozen plain, And hang on little twigs and start again’, ‘Emmonsail’s Heath in Winter’ by John Clare (1793–1864). Forming into large flocks to search for food; seeing four or five blue tits on a single garden feeder suggests there may be more than twenty in the vicinity. By contrast, the kingfisher is a shy, diving bird, nesting in burrows in the banks of waterways and fishing for its food.
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