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

American Wigeons are a common sight in Metro Vancouver from fall through spring, but they disappear for the summer to cooler shores. With 40 more members of his flock, I spotted this handsome fellow wandering the local beach in the late winter of 2015--an odd sight, since they tend to be seen on water or land, but not sand!

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An American Wigeon on the Beach Placemat

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

Living in a place where the colors change as the seasons each have moments in time to express themselves is always something wondrous to witness. Clockwise from top left: winterberries (Fall), rudbeckias (Summer), sun-dappled green leaves in the forest (Spring), and dusty miller (Winter).

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Colors of the Changing Seasons Quadriptych Placemat

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

The African Superb Starling is such a beautiful rainbow of colours. When it makes an entrance, it really makes an entrance; it's no shrinking violet. Rare, though, is the moment when it stays still long enough to get a photo of it, but got it I did, as it waited for its turn to bathe in the waterfall.

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

A Stunning African Superb Starling Placemat

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

A couple of Zebra Finches "posing" for my camera. One clearly has a sense of humor, and the other a (somewhat shocked) sense of propriety. These gregarious songbirds are popular pets for bird lovers, and are available in several color variations.

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

A Cheeky Pair of Zebra Finches Placemat

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

About 100 Snow Geese were making use of Garry Point Park as a layover point on Easter Sunday. At one point, the flock broke into two, and one of these decided to exercise their wing muscles with brief but stunning aerial maneuvers at sunset -- a dramatic show of unison and grace.

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

Snow Geese in Sunset Flight Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this elegant, floral-themed placemat, which features blooming allium giganteum (giant onion) flowers photographed against a bokeh of green and brown. The purple umbels not only add a splash of vibrant color and shape to gardens, but they are edible, too!

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

Purple Allium Giganteum Giant Onion Flowers Placemat

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

Also known by their other aliases of "Red Star" and "Rosy Posy" (my favourite), I found a bed of these small but hardy South African perennials flourishing in one of our local public gardens. Summer brings forth bright pink star-shaped flowers with their telltale hidden hearts -- low growing plants that make great ground cover.

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

Rhodohypoxis / Red Star / Rosy Posy Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this wildlife-themed placemat. Another gorgeous loner, a late migrant Whimbrel, wanders the autumn shores on an early sunny afternoon at the south side of the Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty in its (highly successful) search for crabs. This wading bird--normally gone by early fall in Metro Vancouver--has overstayed its welcome, to the delight of wildlife photographers, instead of heading to South America with its chums.

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

Profile of a Whimbrel Placemat

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

Caught Mr. (or Mrs.?) Three-Toed Black-Capped Chickadee by the old apple tree, with the pink leaves of the pieris japonica shrub in bloom behind it. A resident pair of these little resident songbirds is, once again, raising a new brood in the old nestbox, and keeping away the intruders. Photographed in April 2017.

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Cute Black-Capped Chickadee Songbird on Apple Tree Label

Stunning Wood Duck in the Pond Ornament

One of many Wood Ducks to call Reifel Bird Sanctuary home, especially during the fall/winter/spring seasons in the Pacific Northwest. 

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WWN Stunning Wood Duck in the Pond

Keep notes, reminders, and more in this wildlife-themed journal. 

This male Pekin Robin decided to satisfy his curiosity of the approaching humans, and flew into a large tropical tree to observe us from under the large leafy cover. Our initial encounter was all too brief and disappointing, but this second meeting yielded the opportunity to study this wonderfully dressed and beautiful singer in much greater detail and length. Our subject must have noticed this, as he was unusually still and not hopping from branch to branch!

An Indian subcontinent native, this Old World babbler is so popular that many other countries want to claim it for their own, and so, it goes by other aliases, including Pekin Robin, Pekin nightingale, Japanese hill robin, and Japanese nightingale. 

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

Colorful Leiothrix / Pekin Robin Songbird Notebook

Nothing says "you complete me" or "your better/other half" than these whimsical, wildlife-themed lovers' mugs.

This handsome fellow actually made a beeline to the wharf from which I was photographing a trio of Double-Crested Cormorants ... apparently all these avian "marina users" are quite comfortable around humans. Although they are the Queen's birds, Mute Swans are considered an invasive species in North America on account of their natural behaviours, which upset the native ecosystem, and efforts have been made to keep their numbers down. However, my subject, is just one of fewer than 300 wild Mute Swans who inhabit British Columbian waters.

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Mute Swans Coffee Mug Set

Stunning Black Oystercatcher Shorebird with Clam Mini Binder

Stunning Black Oystercatcher Shorebird with Clam Trinket Tray

Black Oystercatcher Shorebird Fishing at the Beach Gel Mouse Pad

Stunning Black Oystercatcher with Clam Tote Bag

Stunning Black Oystercatcher Shorebird with Clam Golf Head Cover

Seafood dining at its best! One of five Black Oystercatchers we spotted on a windy, cloudy day at the Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty over the Great Backyard Bird Count 2017 (Feb 17-20) weekend. The fishing (clamming?) was good ... these shorebirds were hauling in clam after clam after clam!

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

WWN Stunning Black Oystercatcher Shorebird with Clam

A rather interesting top-down view of a Great Blue Heron at the local wildlife refuge. I've been spotted by my subject, but this efficient (and, at times, ruthless) fisher is in no hurry to move from its spot. Great Blue Herons are the most commonly seen herons in Metro Vancouver, and may be even spotted in ditches along highways and freeways.

A Top-Down View of a Blue Heron

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with these stunning wildlife-themed acrylic coasters, which feature four amazing raptors (clockwise from top left): red-tailed hawk, short-eared owl, bald eagle, and northern harrier. A great gift idea for bird and nature lovers!

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

An American Wigeon on the Beach Placemat

An American Wigeon on the Beach Placemat

More from Walks with Nature

Other table placemats from various stores