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Add a touch of nature and whimsy to your coffee, tea, or favourite hot drink with this wildlife-themed mug! The perfect gift idea for bird lovers!

The first time I've had the opportunity to shoot a Bewick's Wren out in the open, and at fairly close range. This beautiful long-tailed songbird must have sensed that I wanted to photograph it, and returned my curiosity with its own by posing on this branch for a few moments. Photographed in January 2017.

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A Curious Bewick's Wren in the Tree Mug

Add a touch of nature and personality to your coffee, tea, or favourite hot drink with this wildlife-themed mug!

My first (and closest) encounter with a Sooty Grouse at Burnaby Mountain. This handsome fellow was hardly shy around the photographers, but kept largely to the base of the trees and the shadows. When the other photographers had left,  he came out for a little one-on-one time, "treating" me to dances around the remaining photographer and softly modulated hoots -- even following me partway down to the playground!

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Beautiful Sooty Grouse Gamebird in the Grass Mug

Add a touch of nature and personality to your coffee, tea, or favourite hot drink with this floral-themed mug!

These royal blue Cineraria flowers provide a dazzling (and welcome) burst of color for early spring gardens. Although these African natives and members of the daisy family are self-seeding perennials, I call them "Goldilocks flowers", because they require a very specific amount of rain, sunshine, and temperature to thrive.

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Beautiful Royal Blue Cineraria Flowers Mug

Add a touch of nature and whimsy to your coffee, tea, or favourite hot drink with this wildlife-themed mug! By far, Columbian Ground Squirrels are the most entertaining wildlife at Manning Park, and the first ones to greet us in the parking lot of Manning Park Resort. These Prairie Dogs of the West were positioned near their network of holes in the ground (or in rotted tree stumps) and often calling in an upright position like meerkats or groundhogs (when they weren't chasing each other around or kissing). We found plenty at Manning Park Resort and Lightning Lake (particularly near the picnic tables). Columbian Ground Squirrels spend the short summer bulking up on fat reserves for their hibernation period, which lasts for seven months!

A Twitchy-Nosed Columbian Ground Squirrel Mug

Add a touch of nature and personality to your coffee, tea, or favourite hot drink with this wildlife-themed mug!

2017 seems to be the year of Wilson's Warblers, and our backyard has not been exempt from the presence of these small but cheery yellow warblers. The energetic black-capped males have been exploring every potted plant and fruit tree and singing their uplifting melodies. This handsome guy paused on the cherry tree just long enough for me to get him in all his golden goodness. Photographed in mid-May 2017.

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Beautiful Wilson's Warbler in the Cherry Tree Mug

Add a touch of nature and whimsy to your coffee, tea, or favourite hot drink with this wildlife-themed mug! The perfect gift idea for bird lovers! It's always nice to have the wildlife come to check us out, instead of the other way around. Looking like an overgrown cockatiel painted with green feathers and tri-coloured mascara, this elusive and exotic African native satisfied its curiosity of humans and gave us a rather unique viewing angle!

Funny Curious Guinea Turaco Green Bird Two-Tone Coffee Mug

Add a touch of nature and whimsy to your coffee, tea, or favourite drink with this wildlife-themed mug! 

Rufous Hummingbirds have usually left Metro Vancouver for Mexico by mid August, so it was a delight to see and photograph this exceedingly feisty straggler in the backyard. This little scrapper has been (successfully, for the past two days) giving grief to the juvenile male Anna's hummingbird who has owned the backyard for most of the summer (as well as the other feathered friends who visit), vigorously defending every flower and feeder in sight. This hybrid fruit tree branch has become its favorite perch, and gave me quite a few photographic opportunities. Photographed on September 4, 2016.

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Adorable Rufous Hummingbird on Branch Mug

Add a touch of nature and personality to your coffee, tea, or favourite hot drink with this wildlife-themed mug! 

An early morning walk brings us unexpectedly face to face with the normally distant and hard to photograph Killdeer. This is the mother-to-be.

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Closeup of a Killdeer Mug

Part brainteaser, part assemble-it-yourself art, this challenging, wildlife-themed puzzle is great for improving muscle memory.


If that isn't an eye-to-eye grin, I don't know what is! After eluding me in the backyard for a week, this male Scarlet Meadowhawk (one of two males who showed up today and briefly tussled) finally decided to come back to earth on top of one of the bamboo stakes. He didn't even mind me sticking the macro lens practically into his face for this closeup! Little Red obliged me by putting his wings perpendicular to his body (dragonflies usually perch with their wings pointed forward; by adopting the damselfly pose, he made it easier for me to get an unobstructed view of his face). Cardinal Meadowhawks are smaller dragonflies than Blue-Eyed Darners and Brown Hawkers, but what they lack in size, they (the males, at least) make up for with their striking solid red colour.

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This Dragonfly is So Fly When He Smiles! Jigsaw Puzzle

Add a touch of nature and whimsy to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed sandstone coaster. 

Airbnb for the birds! We were quite tickled to see how this Bewick's Wren was making itself very much at home in a long-vacated wren nestbox. This is not unusual to see during spring or summer, but completely unexpected on the second day of winter. My subject was content to showcase a few poses for me while catching a few rays of the midday winter sun. Photographed on December 22, 2019, at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary on Westham Island in Ladner, BC.

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Cute Airbnb Moment Bewick's Wren in Nestbox Coaster

Add a touch of nature to the bathroom with this floral-themed bath mat!  

Though they last but a few short months, these annuals dazzle with an eclectic display of vivid colors, shapes, and sizes.

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Purple, Red, and White Annual Flowers Bathroom Mat

Stunning American Avocet Wading Bird at the Beach Pillar Candle

Stunning American Avocet Wading Bird at the Beach Trinket Tray

Stunning American Avocet Wading Bird at the Beach Mouse Pad

My first encounter with the American Avocet at Boundary Bay Regional Park in beautiful Tsawwassen, British Columbia. This elegant wading bird is rarely found in Canada's westernmost province, so to discover two adults spending a week there during the early stages of fall migration, enjoying the local amenities and completely at ease with the photographer in their midst, was a real treat. Photographed in early September 2022.

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WWN Stunning American Avocet at the Beach

Canada Goose Grooming on the Lake Poker Cards

Hold the winning "wild" card with these nature-themed playing cards! 

A newly adult Canada Goose grooms itself at Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake, on a cloudy fall day, the angular and swan-like curve of its neck conveying an almost regal quality to this bird. Although migratory birds in many parts of the world, some Canada Geese are all-year-round residents in Metro Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest. Photographed in early November 2016.

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WWN Canada Goose Grooms Itself

Getting My Ducks in a Row: Four Buffleheads

Getting My Ducks in a Row: Four Buffleheads Placemat

Getting My Ducks in a Row: Four Buffleheads Serving Tray

As Buffleheads don't congregate in large flocks (4 is generally the maximum) but do keep their distance from humans and potential predators (with the exception of the odd sentry, who investigates all comings and goings of creatures other than itself), it was a pleasant surprise to see both conventions broken in early December 2016, when we spotted a flock of 30 at one of the local ponds, swimming very close to the edge of the pond -- and even anticipating handouts of birdseed! Clearly, these seaducks have become accustomized to the presence of creatures like us! 

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WWN A Fantastic Foursome of Buffleheads

Use this whimsical, wildlife-themed tile to protect delicate surfaces, tables, and countertops from hot pots, or as accent pieces for the dining room, kitchen, or anywhere else in the home!

Bring on the birds of spring! A round, energetic ball of energy, this adult male Wilson's Warbler posed briefly on the grapevine with the white, bell-like flowers of the pieris japonica shrub in the background on a slightly overcast afternoon in mid-May 2018. 

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A Curious Bewick's Wren in the Tree Mug

A Curious Bewick's Wren in the Tree Mug

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Other coffee mugs from various stores