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

A tiny Sanderling looks for a fine seafood dining experience on the shores of Boundary Bay Regional Park in mid-February 2017.

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

A Wandering Sanderling 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!

After sitting outside for an hour and a half as the afternoon snow fell quickly and in fat clumps this afternoon, this beautiful male Varied Thrush finally ventured to the bowl of the seed on the ground. Occasionally, he would look up and gaze in my direction before resuming his meal. After eating his fill (and keeping the other, smaller songbirds at bay), he returned to flipping leaf litter under the thicket. My first time photographing a Varied Thrush in the snow. Taken in early February 2017. 

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Varied Thrush Songbird on Snowy Winter Day Mug

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

My second encounter with a male Mountain Bluebird. We are gifted, albeit very briefly, with the presence of these beautiful songbirds at the start of the spring season before they head to higher ground to breed. Those stunning cerulean colors stand out on a dreary landscape, even from a distance. When he wasn't busy diving for insects on the local beach, he was highpointing it on driftwood and stalks of dessicated tansy. Photographed at Boundary Bay Regional Park in early spring 2017.

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Beautiful Mountain Bluebird on a Stump Mug

Dreamy Wisdom of Snowy Owls Family Mug

Dreamy Wisdom of Snowy Owls Family Beer Stein

Owl you'll want is right here! Wildlife and the magic of the holiday season go hand in hand, and the no bird wears winter better or is more strongly associated with the season of cold than the charismatic Snowy Owl. The largest owls in North America only show up in Metro Vancouver every few years, and their appearance during our winters causes crowds of admirers and fans to form and flock. 

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

WWN Family of Smiling Snowy Owls

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

It takes two to tango and three to tangle! One lady is bracketed by two gents in another photo that shows why Wood Ducks are called Wood Ducks.  This fallen log actually held five Wood Ducks a few moments before -- but all were in various stages of preening, not all were looking at the camera, and every duck was on a different visual plane. Photographed in the afternoon winter sun at Piper Spit / Burnaby Lake.

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

Trio of Wood Ducks on a Big Log Mug

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

This Blue and Gold Macaw was more than happy to post for a photo. One can't help but notice these large and talkative parrots. There's nothing dull about the plumage or the personality of this extremely sociable and long-lived birds.

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Beautiful Blue and Gold Macaw Mug

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

Her cobalt blue mascara never runs! Quiet as her mate is noisy, this female Eclectus Parrot surprised me even further by choosing to perch uncharacteristically close to my lens.

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Beautiful "Lady in Red" Eclectus Parrot Mug

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

My introduction to the Satyr Comma / Anglewing. Apparently these little, bright orange butterflies are supposed to be skittish, but don't tell this beauty that ... it posed for several shots on a blade of marsh vegetation. Photographed on July 2, 2016 at Campbell Valley Regional Park.

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Beautiful Orange Satyr Comma Butterfly Mug

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

This design features a yin-yang styled pair of Japanese painted ferns, isolated on black, and digitally rendered in fiery orange and electric blue hues. With a leaf shape evocative of both feathers and flames, this most ancient of plants boasts a simple but dazzling and unique artistry.

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Electric Blue Fiery Orange Japanese Painted Ferns Jigsaw Puzzle

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

Our resident adult male Anna's hummingbird has never let me photograph him at close range, but on one evening in early June 2016, he came to sit on one of the old plum tree branches, just a few feet away from me. 

Perhaps, after seeing how comfortable the four visiting Rufous hummingbirds were around me, he probably figured that there wasn't anything scary about me -- and that I might even afford him some protection from the little hellraisers. So rather than being on the receiving end of his metallic scratchy or tick-tick-tick calls, he stared for a few moments into my lens, and then went to feed from the nectar feeder before making a much less frenzied exit than was his usual style.

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Stunning Male Anna's Hummingbird in Plum Tree Air Freshener

Keep notes, reminders, and more in this whimsical, wildlife-themed journal. The perfect choice for bird lovers! 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.

Profile of a Cackling Goose Notebook

If living things inspire you to be your best, then this desk mat, which features a top-down closeup of several cultivars of sempervivum, is for you. 

Also known as live forever, houseleek, and hens and chicks, these plants were transplanted from the flowerbed (where they were growing unchecked) to the more controlled setting of a 2-gallon planter. They are hardy and can survive cold temperatures down to a shocking -40 C, and, as a matter of fact, they were buried in almost 2 feet of snow last winter! Photographed in mid-June 2023.

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Bird's Eye View of Sempervivum Plants Desk Mat

I encountered a party of eight (plus a diminutive Baird's Sandpiper, who managed to sneak into the photo) juvenile Pectoral Sandpipers at the Boundary Bay Wildlife Management Area as September 2018 passed its halfway mark. Like the other shorebirds who normally prefer the grassier, less muddy parts of the beach to forage from, these medium-sized migratory shorebirds did not mind me in their midst. Photographed on a sunny and slightly breezy afternoon on a fairly low high tide that let me walk out a few hundred feet from shore to observe the visiting fauna in close quarters.

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Party of Baird & Pectoral Sandpipers at the Beach Poster

The only Rufous Hummingbird I was able to locate -- and photograph at Iona Island on March 25, 2016. He flashed his stunning gorget very briefly -- unfortunately, too short a time for me to get a shot of it, but he was quite "faithful" to the lower trees in this area, returning to his perches within half a minute of leaving them. He was still there, holding a small number of photographers spellbound, after we had walked the length of the North Jetty.

He made no scratchy metallic noises while perched, but did treat us to the distinctive zinging that his wing feathers make in flight, and even a few dives, clearly demonstrating the acoustic differences between the acoustic tail feather squeaks of a Rufous hummingbird and Anna's hummingbird.

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Male Rufous Hummingbird in the Spotlight Hip Flask

Add a touch of nature to your laptop or computer with this wildlife-themed mousepad. The perfect choice for bird lovers! 

An adult Bald Eagle surveys its domain below from its lofty perch in the Boundary Bay Wildlife Management Area. Metro Vancouver is home to thousands of these birds of prey, and seeing 25-50 a day throughout most of the year is not unheard of. 

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

A Wandering Sanderling Mug

A Wandering Sanderling Mug

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