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Hold the winning "wild" card with these wildlife-themed playing cards! 

A number of small, green, duckweed-covered frogs were seen frequenting a pond just outside of the Minnekhada Lodge, but this cute little fellow took the cake with his unflappable "pose on a hose." Photographed in mid-August 2016.

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Hold the winning "wild" card with these wildlife-themed playing cards! 

A number of small, green, duckweed-covered frogs were seen frequenting a pond just outside of the Minnekhada Lodge, but this cute little fellow took the cake with his unflappable "pose on a hose." Photographed in mid-August 2016.

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

Cute Green Frog Strikes a Pose on the Hose Poker Cards

Cute Green Frog Strikes a Pose on the Hose Playing Cards

Hold the winning "wild" card with these nature-themed playing cards! 

I was privileged to see a Saker Falcon in the feathers a couple of years ago. This female was so well-mannered with the large (and often noisy) crowds in attendance, as a matter of fact, that her handler rarely needed to be present to tend to her feathered charge! Chosen for thousands of years as a popular falconry bird for its exceptional trainability, this large, pale Eurasian beauty is sadly--despite being endowed with great hunting prowess, power, and speed--an endangered hierofalcon species thanks to loss and destruction of its habitat. 

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Vignetted Portrait of an Inquisitive Saker Falcon Playing Cards

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By far, Columbian Ground Squirrels are the most entertaining wildlife at Manning Park, and the first ones to greet us in the parking lot of Manning Park Resort. 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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Cute Columbian Ground Squirrel in the Grass Playing Cards

Hold the winning "wild" card with these wildlife-themed playing cards! 

One of many honeybees who were pollinating echinacea at one of the oldest public gardens in Metro Vancouver, BC. I liked the way the spiny heart of these coneflowers, with their reddish orange tips, was captured. Photographed in late August 2016.

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Beautiful Honeybee Pollinating a Coneflower Playing Cards

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Nothing draws the honeybees in mid/late May through June like the huge California Lilac that blooms with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters on the front lawn. In fact, this bush resembles a purple beehive in late spring/early summer when these tiny winged marvels congregate.

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Stunning Honeybee on the California Lilac Shrub Playing Cards

Hold the winning "wild" card with these whimsical, nature-themed playing cards! 

Leopard geckos clearly have a great ability to sense when the attention is on them. Through half-slitted eyes, this handsome travel-sized lizard lifted its head to gift the paparazzi with a cryptic smile for several minutes before returning to its afternoon siesta.

August 14 is World Lizard Day!

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Funny Leopard Gecko Smiles for the Paparazzi Playing Cards

Sometimes a mistake can be the path to a new technique. This Japanese Shaga, a small but ornate beardless iris also rather romantically known as the butterfly flower for its delicate, wing-like petals, was actually photographed outdoors under natural daylight after I forgot to reset shutter speed and aperture settings from the previous photo.

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Elegant Japanese Crested Iris White Flowers Playing Cards

Hold the winning "wild" card with these whimsical, nature-themed playing cards! 

This young Rufous hummingbird was taking a break from scrapping with a fellow hummingbird for ownership of the flowers in a vast public garden to enjoy a little moment of peace and quiet in the sun. Photographed in early June 2017.

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Cute Rufous Hummingbird Perched on Flower Playing Cards

18-Spotted Yellow and Black Ladybug Classic Round Sticker

18-Spotted Yellow and Black Ladybug Ceramic Tile

18-Spotted Yellow and Black Ladybug Jigsaw Puzzle

This isn't the first time I've seen a ladybug which wasn't red and spotted, but it is certainly the first one I've been able to photograph and count the number of spots on its carapace! This beneficial insect is busy nibbling the aphids on the old plum tree leaves (note: this leaf is *not* wet; it is covered in aphid poo!)

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WWN 18-Spotted Yellow and Black Ladybug on a Plum Leaf

Saucy Red Squirrel in the Fir Pillar Candle

Saucy Cute Red Squirrel in Fir Tree Drawstring Bag

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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WWN Who Me? Saucy Red Squirrel in the Fir

Give special items and keepsakes pride of place over the Christmas holiday season with this festive, floral-themed trinket tray, which features striking red and cream-colored poinsettias. Customize with a name or surname.

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Festive Red White Floral Poinsettias Trinket Tray

A curious female Bufflehead does a swim by one of the big ponds at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary to investigate why there is suddenly a big flock of other ducks. Although insects and fish are the staples of their diet, I have noticed that handfuls of birdseed will bring one or two (generally, one male and one female) to investigate and partake of the free food.

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A Bufflehead Duck Swims By Magnet

Show off your love of nature with this whimsical, wildlife-themed luggage tag! The perfect gift for bird lovers!

This little lady prefers blueberry blossom nectar over sugar water, giving this potted bush a thorough going over on a sunny spring afternoon and myself the opportunity to photograph a Rufous Hummingbird, nearly vertical with the tiny, bell-shaped white flowers she sips from. The backyard is just starting to come alive with birds after being relatively quiet for the past five weeks. Photographed in mid-May 2017.

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Rufous Hummingbird Sips Blueberry Blossom Nectar Luggage Tag

Part brainteaser, part assemble-it-yourself art, this challenging and whimsical wildlife-themed puzzle is great for improving muscle memory.

I encountered a party of eight (seven pictured here) juvenile Pectoral Sandpipers at the Boundary Bay Wildlife Management Area as September 2018 passed its halfway mark. Like the other shorebirds who normally prefer the grassier, less muddy parts of the beach to forage from, these medium-sized migratory shorebirds did not mind me in their midst. Photographed on a sunny and slightly breezy afternoon on a fairly low high tide that let me walk out a few hundred feet from shore to observe the visiting fauna in close quarters.

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Party of Pectoral Sandpipers on the Beach Jigsaw Puzzle

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this whimsical, wildlife-themed glass coaster, which features a bird's eye view of a stunning male intergrade (hybrid) Northern Flicker woodpecker curiously eyeing the paparazzi above him. Photographed in mid-October 2020.

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Cute Green Frog Strikes a Pose on the Hose Playing Cards

Cute Green Frog Strikes a Pose on the Hose Playing Cards

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Other playing cards from various stores