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Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this wildlife-themed placemat. 

You know that it's been a really cold winter in Metro Vancouver when even the usually skittish Spotted Towhees perch on the trees just a foot or two away in the hopes that you have seeds on your person! Photographed at the local wildlife refuge in mid-January 2017.

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

A Spotted Towhee in a Tree Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this placemat. This beautiful young Peregrine Falcon -- who is being rehabilitated for eventual release -- was unintentionally vignetted when I photographed it through a hole in the fence. However, my subject knew to give me its best side!

Vignetted Profile of a Peregrine Falcon Placemat

Add a touch of whimsy to your dining experience with this cat-themed placemat. This l'il shadowboxer looks like s/he means business, but that stern expression belies a very friendly nature. It takes a very trusting feline to walk right up to a complete stranger, lie on the ground, and roll around several times (showing belly) in the parking lot at the Ladner Harbour Park (where it looks like a film shoot or a local festival is being set up) as if she's known you all her life. She certainly knows how to play up to the camera -- those yellow eyes never leave it (maybe she's a studio cat)! Oh, and she came by to rub my legs after she finished with her sandbath.

Cute Shadowboxing Orange Tabby Cat in the Gravel Placemat

Add a touch of nature and whimsy to your dining experience with this wildlife-themed placemat.

There's always a joker in the family--at least, that's what the expression on this drake seems to suggest. With autumn returns Northern Shovelers to the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary. These long-billed ducks generally hang out with flocks of their kinds or Mallards. They do not come when birdseed is offered, but can be seen straining their food from the bodies of water they swim in. I have never seen one set foot on land--when they groom or rest, they do so on spits of land far from shores. Photographed in late November 2016.
 
Based on the original photography of W.H. Sim. All Rights Reserved. See more at zazzle.com/walkswithnature

A Flock of Northern Shovelers Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this wildlife-themed placemat.

A pair of Sandhill Cranes wades through the shallow waters of the local wildlife refuge on a cloudy mid-winter's day. These are the largest birds that can be seen in Metro Vancouver all year round, more often on the ground, but occasionally in the air, too. As wild (and large) as they are, the ones who frequent the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary will consent to being handfed, and indeed, sometimes demand disbursement of birdseed this way!

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

Pair of Wading Greater Sandhill Cranes Birds Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this wildlife-themed placemat. They're not juniper berries, but this bird--which is rarely seen here in the Metro Vancouver area--clearly isn't finicky when it comes to winter fruits. This Townsend's Solitaire (another bird for my life list) materialized on our front lawn pyracantha bush on December 9, 2015, but it required two more visits more a week later to finally get proof of this handsome thrush.

Townsend's Solitaire on the Pyracantha Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this wildlife-themed placemat.

The search for the male Mountain Bluebird at the North Jetty of Iona Island proved futile, but this blue bird -- perched on a twig near the chain link fence along Ferguson Road by the inner ponds -- didn't disappoint. 

The Tree Swallows have indeed returned to Iona Island, but we saw far fewer now than in March 2015 at this same point in time -- and the females had already shown up, too. I observed maybe 20 in flight and just a few perched like this fellow, and not a female in sight.

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

Sunlit Profile of a Tree Swallow Songbird Placemat

Add a touch of nature and elegance to the dining experience with these stunning, floral-themed laminated placemats.

Their latin name means the first fruits of spring, and rightly so; primulas are a welcome, colorful, and poetic addition to early garden.

Design © W.H. Sim. See more at zazzle.com/expressionsoccasions

Colorful Medley Pink Blue Purple Primula Flowers Placemat

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.

The fly I just caught was THAT big! This handsome male Rufous Hummingbird was photographed at one of the nectar feeders at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in mid-May 2016. These feisty little hummingbirds are a popular attraction in Metro Vancouver, and can be seen here patronizing nectar feeders from March through August, although warm spells late into the fall in 2015 saw a few overstaying their welcome until the end of October! 

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

Stunning Male Rufous Hummingbird Flying Jewel Trivet

Add a touch of nature and wonder to your walls with this wildlife-themed decal! Perfect for bird lovers!

With the deep blue of the water in the background, I could not have asked for better light or a better pose with this shot (I did hope to be a little closer to my subject, though!) Three of these very active and adorable buntings were hopping up and down the shoreline at the Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty on a sunny but very breezy evening! Lapland Longspurs are delightful little songbirds that winter in Metro Vancouver but spend their summers in the high Arctic. Photographed on October 17, 2016.

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

Lapland Longspur on a Sunlit Log Wall Decal

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

Seems like everyone's got a weakness for nuts and seeds, including this Bewick's Wren. Their complex and euphonic repertoire more than makes up for their understated brown plumage. Photographed in late March 2021. 

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

Bewick's Wren Songbird on Treestump Poker Cards

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

Part brainteaser, part assemble-it-yourself art, this challenging, wildlife-themed puzzle is great for improving muscle memory. This 4.5-foot male green iguana was basking in both the attention of human visitors and the heat of the pre-noon sun during a show-and-tell session at the local zoo.

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

Profile of a Green Iguana Jigsaw Puzzle

Add a touch of nature to your laptop or computer with this wildlife-themed mousepad. The perfect choice for bird lovers! This was a Christmas Day filled with plenty of birds in the backyard -- including this rather introspective Black-Capped Chickadee looking skyward on the pear tree. Sunny skies and chilly temps made my puffed up and sleepy feathered friends reluctant to stir from their perches, and that led to a few opportunities for closeups of birds I normally find difficult to get stills of. Based on the original photography of W.H. Sim. All Rights Reserved. See more at zazzle.com/walkswithnature

Cute Black-Capped Chickadee on Pear Tree Mouse Pad

Add a touch of nature to every room in your home with this wildlife-themed switchplate cover! 

The perfect choice for bird lovers! I have never met a more photogenic and well-behaved Northern Pintail. This one was photographed (and exchanging the odd word or two) with a small flock of Northern Pintails and Mallards near the observation tower, just a few minutes before closing time at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary.

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

Funny Northern Pintail Duck Gothic Light Switch Cover

Add a touch of nature to your car with this whimsical, wildlife-inspired air freshener!

Saw more of the tiny Sanderlings at the Boundary Bay Regional Park beach, just before Valentine's Day 2017. This one was foraging on the shoreline with 20 others of its kind, dining on the remnants of clams that had been already picked apart by gulls. 

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

A Spotted Towhee in a Tree Placemat

A Spotted Towhee in a Tree Placemat

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Other table placemats from various stores