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Add a touch of nature and elegance to the kitchen or dining room with this floral-themed serving tray! These Satin Flowers (also known by their more plebian alias, Pale Yellow-Eyed Grass) grow in a round and blossom in tiers; there are two tiers of flowers above and one tier of flowers below this one.

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Beautiful Satin Flowers on Black Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! The perfect choice for bird lovers! Black Oystercatchers are one of the most approachable shorebirds in Metro Vancouver. Some will even walk right up to you--giving you the chance for lovely photo opportunities. I like this shot because there's a blue background (water) and grey (log) to set off that striking red bill, yellow eye, pink legs, and black and brown plumage. This may be a Black Oystercatcher, but we saw only clams and mussels being deftly pried apart for their tasty flesh by these expert shuckers.

Black Oystercatcher with Clam Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this floral-themed serving tray! 

These royal blue Cineraria flowers provide a dazzling (and welcome) burst of color for early spring gardens. Although these African natives and members of the daisy family are self-seeding perennials, I call them "Goldilocks flowers", because they require a very specific amount of rain, sunshine, and temperature to thrive.

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Beautiful Royal Blue Cineraria Flowers Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! 

The perfect choice for bird lovers! This is a female Anna's hummingbird who has been challenging the adult male Anna's hummingbird for backyard ownership rights (note: there are three MORE challengers!) -- going so far as to not just drink from the nectar feeders in the backyard, but sit in the same branch as the current owner ... which is usually a challenge that usually shatters the peace in about five seconds. Based on the original photography of W.H. Sim. All Rights Reserved. See more at zazzle.com/walkswithnature

Anna's Hummingbird Hovers in Place Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! 

The first full day of snow in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, saw many fluffed up songbirds in the backyard perched on the fruit trees for most of the day, including at least two Cassiar Dark-Eyed Juncos (an intergrade of Slate-Colored and Oregon varieties), like this chubby little number here.  Photographed on December 9, 2016.

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Slate-Colored Dark-Eyed Junco on the Pear Tree Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this stunning, wildlife-themed serving tray, which features my first encounter with American Avocets at Boundary Bay Regional Park in beautiful Tsawwassen, British Columbia. These elegant wading birds are rarely found in Canada's westernmost province, so to discover two adults spending a week there (two more joined them a week later) 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

Stunning American Avocets Birds on the Beach Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! 

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. 

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Colorful Leiothrix / Pekin Robin Songbird Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! The perfect choice for hummingbird lovers! This female Rufous Hummingbird has developed a fondness for many of our flowering plants, including the nectar from the first Kniphofia to bloom in our backyard! Miss R. now owns the garden, scrutinizing every creature who shows up -- bird, squirrel, and everyone else!

Rufous Hummingbird Sipping Kniphofia Nectar Serving Tray

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

Use this elegant, wildlife-themed tile to protect delicate surfaces, tables, and countertops from hot pots, or as accent pieces for the dining room, kitchen, or anywhere else in the home!

Mid-autumn brings the return of Buffleheads to the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary. While one or two of these diminutive ducks will partake of the birdseed thrown in the water, the rest generally keep their distance from humans and the other duck species.
 
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Male Bufflehead Duck in the Afternoon Sun Ceramic Tile

Add a touch of nature to any room with this whimsical, wildlife-themed wall hanging.

The White-Crowned Sparrow is a bird for every season in the Pacific Northwest. Here it sits on the tansy that grows wild and in great numbers in the Boundary Bay Wildlife Management Area. Photographed in August 2018.

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White-Crowned Sparrow Sitting on the Tansy Canvas Print

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

Close encounter with of one of several stunning spring aerialists, a handsome male Tree Swallow taking five on the wire at Iona Island, BC, Canada. Their less strikingly colored female counterparts have yet to arrive. Photographed in late March 2021. 

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Sunlit Profile of a Tree Swallow Songbird Jigsaw Puzzle

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

Last year, I was fortunate enough to encounter the female Yellow-Headed Blackbird at Manning Park. This year, I saw not one but three adult male Yellow-Headed Blackbirds (and at least one female)--the former calling attention to themselves with their golden heads and breasts, less-than-melodious birdcalls, and frequent sparring matches with the more familiar Red-Winged Blackbird males in the marshes of Iona Island.

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Striking Yellow-Headed Blackbird in the Marsh Notebook

What you choose to build anticipation of a gift with is just as important as the gift itself. This gift bag, which features a young Rufous hummingbird sipping kniphofia nectar in my backyard, is perfect for bird lovers, or ideal for showing your significant other how special they are to you.

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Rufous Hummingbird Sipping Kniphofia Nectar Large Gift Bag

Celebrate academic achievements or recognize employee loyalty with this stylish accessory pouch, which features warm brown and earth tones and easy-to-read fonts. Customize as desired. Reverse shows identical design.

Design and layout copyright W.H. Sim. All Rights Reserved. See more at zazzle.com/walkswithnature

Beautiful Satin Flowers on Black Serving Tray

Beautiful Satin Flowers on Black Serving Tray

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Other serving trays from various stores