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Make bedroom decor, bags, and so much more with this fabric.

Next to the Brown Hawker dragonfly who made a beeline for me last summer and decided that my denim-covered leg would make a nice warm perch for a few minutes, this extremely accommodating Canada Darner dragonfly has got to be one of my best insect subjects. S/he didn't twitch in the 30 minutes I spent photographing it, and as a matter of fact, stayed on the exterior of the house for at least another 15 minutes before flying off!

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Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Fabric

Make pjs, bedroom decor, bags, and so much more with this fabric that features a beautiful male Mountain Bluebird.

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 Fabric

Add a touch of nature that's uniquely Canadian to DIY arts and crafts projects like bedroom decor, pillows, bags, and so much more with this floral-themed fabric, which features a trio of Canada 150 maple leaf tulips isolated on a black background.

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Elegant Maple Leaf Tulips Fabric

Make pjs, bedroom decor, bags, and so much more with this fabric, which features an Anna's Hummingbird in the old plum tree!

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 on the Plum Tree Fabric

Add a touch of nature to DIY arts and crafts projects like bedroom decor, pillows, bags, and so much more with this floral-themed fabric, which features a trio of yellow and pink daylilies isolated on a black background. Photographed in mid-July 2018 at a private garden at sunset. 

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Elegant Trio of Yellow Pink Daylilies Floral Fabric

Make pjs, bedroom decor, bags, and so much more with this fabric that features the elegant, pitcher-like blossoms of the hardy calla lily. These flowers symbolize beauty, strength, innocence, and renewal. Photographed in the summer of 2016.

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Elegant Gold and Crimson Calla Lilies Fabric

Make pjs, bedroom decor, bags, and so much more with this fabric, which features an adorable young male Bushtit after a sudden summer shower!

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 on the Laurel Fabric

Make pjs, bedroom decor, bags, and so much more with this floral-themed fabric, which features Satin Flowers.

Satin Flowers (also known by their more plebian aliases of Pale Yellow-Eyed Grass or Argentine Blue 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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Elegant Satin Flowers on Black Fabric

Add a touch of nature to your laptop or computer with this wildlife-themed mousepad.

Last year, I was fortunate enough to encounter the female Yellow-Headed Blackbird at Manning Park. This year, I saw not one of these rare visitors to Metro Vancouver, 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 Mouse Pad

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

The humble but prolific anise hyssop (hummingbird mint) is the flower of choice for hummingbirds, and the ease with which these small fragrant pink (or red or orange) flowers grow makes them popular with honeybees, bumblebees, and many other insects too. Taken earlier in the summer of 2016, when an abundance of visiting Rufous hummingbirds meant more feeding opportunities for these little red birds (and more contenders for the resident Anna's hummingbirds meant more opportunities to photograph the feisty  little migrants and challengers).

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Rufous Hummingbird Feeding on the Anise Hyssop Jigsaw Puzzle

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

With water beading off his inflatable crest, and a simultaneously striking and conservative palette of blacks, whites, and cinnamon brown, the adult male Hooded Merganser is one winter duck species that makes you stop and stare. They will swallow large fresh pond fish whole by stretching that normally hidden neck of theirs to a foot in length. This handsome, unperturbable gent was swimming in the ponds at the local wildlife sanctuary--not surprised to see so many humans moving in a like direction--in late December 2019.

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Stunning Hooded Merganser Duck in Pond Jigsaw Puzzle

Add a touch of nature and whimsy to your travels with this wildlife-themed luggage tag. The perfect choice for bird lovers!

This male Downy Woodpecker announced himself quite vocally with a trademark chip-chip-chip repertoire just before making an appearance on this dead tree. He proceeded to peck away at his perch, oblivious of the solitary camera lens trained on him and the many walkers on the trail.

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Cute Downy Woodpecker on the Tree Luggage Tag

Add a touch of nature to the holidays with this elegant, wildlife-themed ornament!  

Usually the Northern Flickers I meet like to keep a rather "discreet" 50-foot distance between themselves and the photographer. For some inexplicable reason, this male Red-Shafted decided that he was best admired, not just high up in the tree, but on the ground as well ... some 6.5 feet away!

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Red-Shafted Northern Flicker Woodpecker in a Tree Metal Ornament

Use these wildlife-themed tiles to protect delicate surfaces, tables, and countertops from hot pots, or as accent pieces for the dining room or kitchen.

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 Tile

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

7 Killdeer were frequenting the mudflats near the pumphouse at Boundary Bay Regional Park / Centennial Beach after the first snowfall to truly blanket the region and turn normally flowing watercourses into frozen lakes of ice and snow. In my admittedly short 2 years of birding, I have never encountered Killdeer at this time of the year (winter is a week away), let alone under the current weather conditions. Photographed in mid-December 2016 during an unseasonably prolonged cold snap.

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Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Fabric

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Fabric

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