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Add a touch of nature to the living room with this wildlife-themed lampshade cover.  A White-Crowned Sparrow welcomes the day (and enchants its rapt listeners) with a simple but sweet song. As spring turns into summer, we see more and more of this beautiful songbird, who often forages solo, too.

A White-Crowned Sparrow Sings to the Sun Tripod Lamp

Add a touch of nature to the living room with this floral-themed lampshade cover.  Community gardens are a wonderful place to see not just veggies and fruits, but a great variety of beautiful flowers. These beardless purple irises caught my eye at Richmond's Terra Nova Rural Park in late spring 2015.

Dutch Iris Purple Sensation Tripod Lamp

Add a touch of nature to any room with this floral-themed lampshade, which features a stunning medley of primulas. These bicolor, early spring blooming beauties beckoned me with their dazzlingly vivid palettes of reds, pinks, purples, and yellows.

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

Colorful Springtime Medley of Primulas Tripod Lamp

Add a touch of nature to the living room with this flora-themed lampshade cover.  

Looking very much like sunflowers--no surprise, since they belong to the same family--Rudbeckias are some of my favourite summertime flowers, especially when they bloom en masse.

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Rudbeckias / A Bed of Black-Eyed Susans Tripod Lamp

Add a touch of nature to the living room with this wildlife-themed lampshade cover.  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 at Manning Park's Lightning Lake, where they would boldly descend on picnic tables in the hopes of free handouts.

A Cute and Curious Grey Jay / Whiskeyjack Tripod Lamp

Add a touch of nature to the living room with this floral-themed lampshade cover. 

Available in a delightful range of colors, calla lilies have long intrigued me with their elegant, pitcher-like flowers. These hardy South African natives have found a strong fan following in North American gardens as ornamental plants.

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

Elegant Purple Calla Lilies Tripod Lamp

Add a touch of nature to the living room with this wildlife-themed lampshade cover.  

The sudden appearance of three Bald Eagles--working the waters of Boundary Bay Regional Park--sends thousands of American Wigeons (and the odd Northern Pintail) into the sunny but chilly late November skies.

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

Stunning Winter Ducks in Flight Tripod Lamp

Add a touch of nature and whimsy to the living room with this wildlife-themed lampshade! The Hooded Merganser hen in the middle looks far from impressed at the two drakes courting for her attention. She seems to be throwing the photographer the avian equivalent of a raised eyebrow ("you've got to be kidding me!") Photographed on a chilly and eventful winter birding day in early February 2015 at Boundary Bay Regional Park.

A Meeting of Hooded Mergansers Tripod Lamp

Here's the familiar adult form of a ten-spotted ladybug, captured wandering up the stalk of one of many sunflowers that suddenly sprouted in June 2014.

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Ladybug on the Sunflower Stalk Classic Round Sticker

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 foraging on the shoreline. Photographed on a very sunny and busy winter afternoon at Boundary Bay Regional Park.

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Sanderling Wades Through Wintry Waters Wrapping Paper

Add a touch of nature and festive to your favorite drink with this floral-themed tall latte mug, which features red and white lobster plants, softly feathered onto a white background. 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 an even more festive touch to year-end holidays and entertaining as a popular centerpiece.

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Festive Red White Floral Poinsettias Latte Mug

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. 

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Sanderling Sandpiper Dines on Clam at Beach Postcard

A Chatty Green-Winged Teal Duck at the Pond Throw Pillow

A Chatty Green-Winged Teal Duck at the Pond Canvas Print

A Chatty Green-Winged Teal Duck at the Pond Ceramic Tile

A Chatty Green-Winged Teal Duck at the Pond Classic Round Sticker

A Chatty Green-Winged Teal Duck at the Pond Face Mask

Green-Winged Teals are starting to mass in greater numbers at Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake, as winter passes its halfway point. A number of these small dabbling ducks are also starting to engage in springtime courtship behaviours. This drake was particularly vocal, and gave me a good angle of himself in the process.

WWN Chatty Green-Winged Teal at the pond

Stunning American Avocets Birds on the Beach Socks

These elegant wading birds are 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.

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

WWN A Stunning Trio of American Avocets at the Beach

Rufous Hummingbird Sitting in the California Lilac Socks

Cute Rufous Hummingbird on California Lilac Photo Print

Cute Rufous Hummingbird in the California Lilac Beer Stein

Rufous Hummingbird in the California Lilac Golf Head Cover

Rufous Hummingbird on California Lilac Branch Small Gift Bag

A most enchanting discovery in the California Lilac on the front lawn in mid-April 2017-- a young female Rufous Hummingbird, guarding "her" nectar feeder and gaining some protection from this large, cage-like bush. These migratory hummingbirds spend their spring and summer "vacation" in the Pacific Northwest, and, although smaller than the resident Anna's hummingbirds, are far feistier, often chasing the latter out of their territories for the duration of their five-month stay in the Northern Hemisphere.

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

A White-Crowned Sparrow Sings to the Sun Tripod Lamp

A White-Crowned Sparrow Sings to the Sun Tripod Lamp

More from Walks with Nature

Other lamps from various stores