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Add a touch of nature and elegance to the kitchen and dining room with this floral-themed serving tray!

This is a closeup of flowering pineapple guava aka guavasteen (which resembles St. John's Wort) in the backyard. This is the self-pollinating variety, and one of the newest additions to our backyard garden. The birds have started taking notice, too. Being dark green on the avocado-shaped exterior and creamy yellow or white on the inside, though, the fruit isn't anywhere as exotic looking as the flowers.

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A Quartet of Pineapple Guava / Guavasteen Flowers Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! The perfect choice for bird lovers! Perched on a fallen log (and living up to his name) is this colorful drake, one of several Wood Duck “fixtures” at Piper Spit. Burnaby Lake is home to the largest concentrations of Wood Ducks–hands down, the most colorful waterfowl you’ll find in Metro Vancouver, Canada.

Beautiful Pensive Wood Duck in the Marsh Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this whimsical, wildlife-themed serving tray! 

Hanging with my peeps! Despite the 60-80 Sanderlings probing the shoreline, getting a group photo of this high-energy flock (which was soon joined by another flock of 30-40 Sanderlings) in action was a bit difficult (imagine kindergarten-aged children running amok all over the place); shots of bills submerged in water as well as feathered butts pointed in my direction were the norm.

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Funny Cute 4 Sanderlings Sandpipers at the Beach Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this whimsical, wildlife-themed serving tray! 

As a fan of both Shakespeare and shorebirds, this scene might be alternatively captioned "Baird(s) on the Beach." My meeting them in such close quarters was an unexpected pleasure; a small contingent of these tiny migrants was completely at ease with the photographer in their midst, and continued to feed nonchalantly on aquatic bugs or park themselves on top of the mounds of seaweed nearby. Photographed over the Labour Day 2018 long weekend.

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Baird's Sandpiper Shorebird on the Beach Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! The perfect choice for bird lovers! The male and female Wood Ducks dazzle with their respective plumages, and every encounter represents an opportunity to capture them with my camera.

Wood Ducks on the Log Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this floral-themed serving tray! 

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 Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! 

A rare moment of co-operation and tenderness between Sanderlings (who are more likely to go solo or chase each other during their hunts) in their search for snacks on the shore.

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Cute Pair of Sanderlings Sandpipers Shares a Meal Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! 

Nibbling tansy seeds in the wet cold wind at Boundary Bay Regional Park was the first Lincoln's Sparrow I've seen in the area. My third sighting of this sparrow, and my closest encounter with one to date.
Photographed in mid-December 2016 during an unseasonably prolonged cold snap.

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Lincoln's Sparrow on Tansy Serving Tray

Handsome Tree Swallow Songbird on a Wire Luggage Tag

Stunning Profile of a Tree Swallow Songbird Large Christmas Stocking

Handsome Tree Swallow: Bird on a Wire Canvas Print

Handsome Tree Swallow Songbird on a Wire Hip Flask

Handsome Tree Swallow Songbird on a Wire Light Switch Cover

Nothing heralds spring like Tree Swallows. These small and very approachable birds amaze me with their astonishing aerial maneuvers and beautiful iridescent blue plumage.

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WWN Stunning Tree Swallow on the Wire

Profile of a Cute Grey Jay / Whiskeyjack Hip Flask

Profile of a Cute Grey Jay / Whiskeyjack Bath Mat

Cute Canada Gray / Grey Jay / Whiskeyjack Golf Head Cover

Profile of a Cute Grey Jay / Whiskeyjack Classic Round Sticker

Profile of a Cute Grey Jay / Whiskeyjack 3 Ring Binder

If someone combined the adorably big head and black eyes of a Black-Capped Chickadee with the colours and bill of a Kookaburra in a Jay-sized body, they'd have the whimsically-named Whiskeyjack. Also known by its less colourful aliases of Canada Jay and Gray Jay, we saw no fewer than six of Canada's official national birds at Manning Park's Lightning Lake, where they would boldly descend on picnic tables in the hopes of free handouts.

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WWN Saucy Grey Jay in the Fir

Add a touch of nature to your apparel with this wildlife-themed top! 

When Bushtits come calling, it's a sudden avalanche of cuteness in the backyard -- because these social songbirds often show up in flocks of 10-30, feed briefly (and co-operatively) on the suet or whatever else they fancy (calling to each other constantly as they do so), and leave as quickly as they came. Once in a while, though, they will stay for 15-30 minutes. I photographed this damp fellow--who was caught in the morning rain--taking a moment to pause on the laurel bush. Some of his fellow Bushtits were actually bathing on the laurel leaves, like hummingbirds do. Photographed in early July 2016.

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Cute Wet Wee Bushtit on the Laurel Hoodie

Use this wildlife-themed trivet to protect delicate surfaces, tables, and countertops from hot pots, or as an accent piece for the dining room or kitchen.

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 Poses on Branch Trivet

The lone representative of its species (a recently recognized and separate species of the black geese family), a Cackling Goose (once considered a Canada Goose subspecies), plies the waters of an inner pond at Jericho Park on a sunny and surprisingly warm-for-winter afternoon. A much shorter bill and smaller body size set this goose apart from its larger Canada Goose cousin.

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Profile of a Cackling Goose Classic Round Sticker

Cute Bufflehead Duck on Sunlit Waters Drawstring Bag

Cute Bufflehead Duck on Sunlit Waters Notebook

Sweet Bufflehead Duck on Sunlit Waters Bathroom Mat

Sweet Bufflehead Duck on Sunlit Waters Wall Clock

Cute Bufflehead Duck on Sunlit Waters Throw Pillow

Cute Little Bufflehead Duck on Sunlit Waters Glass Coaster

This stunning wildlife design features an adult female Bufflehead duck (with the hint of a smile on her face), plying sunlit winter waters at the local wildlife refuge.

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WWN Bufflehead Duck on Sunlit Waters

Cute Blue Jay Songbird on Treestump Watch

Cute Blue Jay Songbird on Treestump Gift Box

Cute Blue Jay Songbird on Treestump Tote Bag

Cute Blue Jay Songbird on Treestump Jigsaw Puzzle

Cute Blue Jay Songbird on Treestump Golf Towel

Blue Jays may be one of North America's most iconic bird species, but they are rarely found on the West Coast. However, this one has discovered that Ladner Harbor Park in beautiful British Columbia is a great place to hang out and avoid the nasty snowfalls of the east. 

Based on the original photography of W.H. Sim. All Rights Reserved. See more at zazzle.com/walkswithnature

A Quartet of Pineapple Guava / Guavasteen Flowers Serving Tray

A Quartet of Pineapple Guava / Guavasteen Flowers Serving Tray

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Other serving trays from various stores