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

I was surprised to learn that Black-Headed Grosbeaks will fly to the ground to eat seed; my previous encounters with these strikingly-colored finches was strictly up (way up!) in the trees. This handsome fellow showed no restraints about catching some sun on the boardwalk, either, and unwittingly gave me several closeups of himself in the process. Photographed at Campbell Valley Regional Park on July 2, 2016.

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Closeup of a Handsome Black-Headed Grosbeak Serving Tray

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

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 Serving Tray

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

My attempt to photograph a Rufous hummingbird feeding from the hot pink fuschia flowers on a sunny evening in late June 2016 ultimately proved to be fruitless ... but this Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly who came to pose in its stead was a wonderful consolation prize!

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Beautiful Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Serving Tray

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

That the Surf Scoters of White Rock Pier are habituated to the presence of humans is a bit of an understatement. This handsome and tame drake and hen pair was one of hundreds of these large black seaducks who routinely passed under the boardwalk during a crisp but sunny morning visit in early November 2019, giving great bird's eye views of that colorful and comically oversized schnoz that the ladies of his kind have found so fascinating for so long.

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Male and Female Surf Scoter Ducks at the Pier Serving Tray

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

A male Tree Swallow quietly sits in the afternoon sun on a tree branch at at Iona Island, showing off his lovely iridescent blue feathers. Photographed in late May 2016.

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Stunning Tree Swallow Songbird on a Branch Serving Tray

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

These purple 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 Purple Cineraria Flowers Serving Tray

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

As Buffleheads don't congregate in large flocks (4 is generally the maximum) but do keep their distance from humans and potential predators (with the exception of the odd sentry, who investigates all comings and goings of creatures other than itself), it was a pleasant surprise to see both conventions broken in early December 2016, when we spotted a flock of 30 at one of the local ponds, swimming very close to the edge of the pond -- and even anticipating handouts of birdseed! Clearly, these seaducks have become accustomized to the presence of creatures like us!
 
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Getting My Ducks in a Row: Four Buffleheads Serving Tray

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

A Black Swan preens itself in the pond during the height of a summer afternoon. Photographed in mid-September 2014.

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Black Swan in the Pond Serving Tray

Keep notes, reminders, and more in this whimsical, wildlife-themed journal. The perfect choice for bird lovers! One of two Hooded Merganser drakes who was practising his courtship rituals (without benefit of a female audience). He must have been pretty surprised to see his maneuvers recorded!

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A Surprised Hooded Merganser Notebook

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

An unnaturally bold Douglas Squirrel enjoys a surprisingly generous winter feast of millet and sunflower seed at Burnaby Lake on Boxing Day 2017. These chickarees are native to the Pacific Northwest, but this is one of the few places where I can see these native squirrels all year round.

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

Cute Douglas Squirrel Enjoying a Winter Feast Notebook

Use this wildlife-themed trivet to protect delicate surfaces, tables, and countertops from hot pots, or as an accent piece for the dining room or kitchen.

It's not a Pacific Northwest winter unless you see the Varied Thrush. One of my favorite backyard birds to see (and a highly elusive one at that), this songbird has a stunning beauty to match the hauntingly beautiful timbre of its song. This handsome fellow was foraging in the backyard with several other wintering birds when I photographed him from the second floor--giving me a rare bird's eye view of t him. We almost never see them during the summer when they spend that season northwards in Alaska, but the call of the colder seasons of the year brings them back to us. Photographed in mid-January 2017.

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Bird's Eye View of a Varied Thrush Songbird Trivet

With his bright white bib, this handsome domestic Mallard (of the Duclair designer "persuasion") was definitely the odd duck out at the local wildlife sanctuary. That didn't stop him from charming the photographers in his midst, and moving his way to the forefront of the feeding frenzy that included many, many wild Mallards. 

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Domestic Mallard Duclair Bibbed Odd Duck

Take a bit of nature with you, wherever you go with this whimsical, wildlife-themed drawstring backpack! 

If a Guinea (Green) Turaco could ask a question, it would look something like this. Looking like an oversize cockatiel with green and purple feathers and tri-coloured mascara, this elusive and exotic African native satisfied its curiosity of humans with this rather human expression!

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Funny Curious Guinea Turaco Green Bird Drawstring Bag

Columbian Ground Squirrels are some of the most entertaining wildlife at Manning Park, and the first ones to greet us in the parking lot. These "Prairie Dogs of the West" were positioned near their network of holes in the ground (or in rotted tree stumps) and often calling in an upright position like meerkats or groundhogs (when they weren't chasing each other around or kissing). We found plenty at Manning Park Resort and Lightning Lake (particularly near the picnic tables). Columbian Ground Squirrels spend the short summer bulking up on fat reserves for their hibernation period, which lasts for seven months!

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Curious Cute Columbian Ground Squirrel Gel Mouse Pad

This wildlife design features a White-Crowned Sparrow--a bird for every season in the Pacific Northwest--sitting in the tansy.

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Closeup of a Handsome Black-Headed Grosbeak Serving Tray

Closeup of a Handsome Black-Headed Grosbeak Serving Tray

More from Walks with Nature

Other serving trays from various stores