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Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! Sanderlings are tiny -- and surprisingly, quite approachable -- migratory shorebirds that can be easily found on Vancouver beaches in the coldest winter months. This one was strolling quite leisurely on the shoreline. Photographed on a very sunny and busy winter afternoon at Boundary Bay Regional Park.

A Strolling Sanderling Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this customizable wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

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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Rufous Hummingbird on the Hybrid Fruit Tree Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this customizable wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

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 Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

One of an unexpectedly large flock of 30 Buffleheads, who were swimming in a local pond at Ambleside Park in early December 2016. These seaducks were uncharacteristically bold, and venturing as far to land as a few feet away from the water's edge. More than a handful--like this handsome adult male--looked like they were expectantly waiting handouts of birdseed from the watching birders and photographers, and yet, when none was forthcoming, resumed their activities of swimming, preening, or diving for food.
 
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Stunning Bufflehead Duck at the Pond Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

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.

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Townsend's Solitaire Songbird on the Pyracantha Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 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.

A Black-Capped Chickadee on the Pear Tree Towel

Sanderling Strolling a Winter Beach Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this customizable festive, floral-themed kitchen towel that's perfect for home-cooked Christmas dinners! 

Poinsettias are most often associated with Christmas, and, surrounded here by cream coloured Yellow Snow poinsettias, the speckled leaves of this particular variety -- known as Shimmer Surprise Poinsettia -- add a warm and celebratory touch to year-end holidays as a popular centerpiece.

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Festive Red White Floral Poinsettias Towel

Take a bit of tasty with you, wherever you go, with this stunning food-themed all-over-print tote bag, which features a homegrown (and oddball) medley of striped, green, purple, and yellow tomatoes on a weathered grey picnic table, is great for improving muscle memory. Pictured tomato cultivars include Green Zebra, Red Zebra, Indigo Rose, Brandywine, Black Prince, Midnight Snack cherry, and heirloom cherry. 

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Colorful Striped Tomatoes on Weathered Table Tote Bag

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

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 Songbird on Laurel Coaster

Beautiful Male Wood Duck in the Woods Ornament

Male Wood Duck in the Woods Tote Bag

Beautiful Male Wood Duck in the Woods Metal Ornament

Male Wood Duck in the Woods Round Pillow

Beautiful Male Wood Duck in the Woods Ceramic Tile

Stunning Wood Duck in the Woods Poker Cards

A male Wood Duck in all his breeding splendor poses for my lens. Wood Ducks are the most colorful all-year-round resident waterfowl one can find in Metro Vancouver, Canada, and they are equally at home in the water, on land, or in the trees -- being the only duck species in North America who can grasp logs and branches. Photographed in early February 2016. 

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WWN Winsome Wood Duck in the Woods

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.

These two Wood Ducks could not possibly be any closer! Intimacy with your significant other means never having to be embarrassed just because a camera lens happens to be angled your way.

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A Touching Moment Between Wood Duck Lovebirds Trivet

Colorful Medley Pink Blue Purple Primula Flowers Apron

Colorful Floral Pink Blue Purple Primula Flowers Shower Curtain

Add a touch of nature and elegance to your life and rooms with these colorful, floral-themed home decor and apparel items!

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

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WWN Colorful Medley of Primula Flowers

A number of small, green, duckweed-covered frogs were seen frequenting a pond just outside of the Minnekhada Lodge, but this cute little fellow took the cake with his unflappable "pose on a hose", doing double duty as a "lifefrog on duty." Photographed in mid-August 2016.

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Cute Green Frog Strikes a Pose on the Hose Magnet

Add a touch of nature to your correspondence with these wildlife-inspired address labels!

The Bald Eagle is one of the most easily recognizable birds and an exceedingly common sight in Metro Vancouver. Seeing 50-100 a day, soaring the skies or roosting in tall trees, is not an unheard of "feat."

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A Strolling Sanderling Towel

A Strolling Sanderling Towel

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Other kitchen towels from various stores