Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

It's always a wonderful moment when our subjects seek us out instead of the other way around! A particularly bold American Robin approaches our picnic table to stare at us -- perhaps he was hoping that we had worms or berries with us?

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Curious American Robin Songbird in the Grass Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this customizable wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

Rufous Hummingbirds have usually left Metro Vancouver for Mexico by mid August, so it was a delight to see and photograph this exceedingly feisty straggler in the backyard. This little scrapper has been (successfully, for the past two days) giving grief to the juvenile male Anna's hummingbird who has owned the backyard for most of the summer (as well as the other feathered friends who visit), vigorously defending every flower and feeder in sight. This hybrid fruit tree branch has become its favorite perch, and gave me quite a few photographic opportunities. Photographed on September 4, 2016.

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Rufous Hummingbird on the Hybrid Fruit Tree Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! This was a Christmas Day filled with plenty of birds in the backyard -- including this rather introspective Black-Capped Chickadee looking skyward on the pear tree. Sunny skies and chilly temps made my puffed up and sleepy feathered friends reluctant to stir from their perches, and that led to a few opportunities for closeups of birds I normally find difficult to get stills of.

A Black-Capped Chickadee on the Pear Tree Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this customizable wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

A rare moment of co-operation and tenderness between Sanderlings (who are more likely to go solo or chase each other during their hunts) in their search for snacks on the shore.

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Cute Pair of Sanderlings Sandpipers Shares a Meal Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

The early blooming pyracantha bush has proven to be very popular with a number of fall and winter birds, including this American Robin. Earlier this fall, I spotted six of these thrushes feasting away at the same time!  My subject didn't need to share the pommes with another feathered friend, and didn't budge when I had the lens pointed her way from the front door. In fact, she continued to enjoy the bright red berries for a few moments more.

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American Robin with a Pyracantha Pomme Towel

Add a touch of whimsy and nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel!

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 Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of whimsy to the kitchen with this animal-themed kitchen towel! Perfect for cat lovers!

You'd never guess, from her playful and youthful manner, that Stella is actually 10 to 12 years older than she looks! This indoor sweetie is as likely to cuddle up to the laps of strangers as she is to those of her regular pair of humans, but she knows how to puts her paw down as far as dogs (especially big dogs) are concerned.

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Stunning Stella the Grey Cat One Fine Feline Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed towel! I love blue flowers, and it's like hitting the jackpot when the huge California Lilac bush on the front blooms with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters. The honeybees can't resist the allure of these flowers, either, and these encounters provide plenty of photo opportunities in the spring and early summer. Based on the original photography of W.H. Sim. All Rights Reserved. See more at zazzle.com/walkswithnature

Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of the tropics to the kitchen or dining room with this verdant, floral-themed serving tray, which features the variegated forest green and white-veined leaves of the mosaic plant (aka nerve plant aka fittonia albivenis). Personalize with initial(s) and (sur)name.

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Fittonia Mosaic Plant with Variegated Leaves Serving Tray

The first time I've had the opportunity to shoot a Bewick's Wren out in the open, and at fairly close range. This beautiful long-tailed songbird must have sensed that I wanted to photograph it, and returned my curiosity with its own by posing on this branch for a few moments. Photographed in January 2017.

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A Curious Bewick's Wren in the Tree Magnet

With a warm winter and early spring in Metro Vancouver, many flowers and fruits were ripening well ahead of schedule -- including these mountain ash (rowan) berries, which aren't normally "ready" for the birds to eat until August. These berries are red, but other varieties also appear as bright orange. Photographed at the UBC Botanical Gardens in July 2016.

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Red Mountain Ash Rowan Berries Postcard

Portrait of a Short-Eared Owl in the Marshes Face Mask

Portrait of a Short-Eared Owl Golf Head Cover

Portrait of a Short-Eared Owl Flask

Short-Eared Owl with Vole Photo Print

Short-Eared Owl with Vole Jigsaw Puzzle

Stunning Portrait of a Short-Eared Owl Poker Cards

With a freshly caught field mouse clutched in its furry feet, a Short-Eared Owl surveys its hunting grounds for opportunistic Northern Harriers who would not hesitate to take advantage of the fruit of its hunting prowess. Sudden gusts of wind fluff this hunter's head feathers, revealing the short ear tufts for which this owl is named. Photographed on a late afternoon in late November 2017.

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WWN Short-Eared Owl with Vole

Celebrate nature and the tropics with this verdant, floral-themed towel set, which features  the variegated forest green and white-veined leaves of the mosaic plant (aka nerve plant aka fittonia albivenis). Personalize with initial(s) and (sur)name.

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Fittonia Mosaic Plant with Variegated Leaves Bath Towel Set

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

Red squirrels on Galiano Island are undeniably bold and saucy, even going so far as to scold photographers and other two-legged creatures who wander into their territory. Photographed on Galiano Island in the early morning of July 4, 2017.

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Saucy Red Squirrel in the Fir Notebook

Beautiful Pensive Wood Duck in the Marsh Wrist Watch

Beautiful Pensive Wood Duck in the Marsh Golf Head Cover

Beautiful Pensive Wood Duck in the Marsh Flask

Beautiful Pensive Wood Duck in the Marsh Postcard

Beautiful Pensive Wood Duck in the Marsh Serving Tray

Perched on a fallen log (and living up to his name) is this colourful drake, one of several Wood Duck “fixtures” at Piper Spit. Burnaby Lake is home to the largest concentrations of Wood Ducks–hands down, the most colourful waterfowl you’ll find in Metro Vancouver, Canada.

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Curious American Robin Songbird in the Grass Kitchen Towel

Curious American Robin Songbird in the Grass Kitchen Towel

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