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These Tree Swallow nestlings are just about ready to fledge and take wing in the big wide world outside their nestbox, which is getting a bit crowded now they're almost full grown. I got the attention of the one on the left, and a few moments later, its sibling decided that I was worth a look, too, and also poked its head through the entrance opening!

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Cute Tree Swallow Babies Looking at Big World Postcard

Nibbling tansy seeds in the wet cold wind at Boundary Bay Regional Park was the first Lincoln's Sparrow I've seen in the area. My third sighting of this sparrow, and my closest encounter with one to date.
Photographed in mid-December 2016 during an unseasonably prolonged cold snap.

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Lincoln's Sparrow Songbird on Tansy Postcard

There's lots to be admired when you're a Hooded Merganser. Crests are your specialty, whether you're the male or the female. The ladies have lovely cinnamon crests, and the gentlemen inflatable black-and-white numbers complemented by a one-size-fits-all black tux for all seasons with a swath of reddish brown on their sides.

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Hooded Merganser Ducks at the Pond Postcard

Diminutive Bufflehead ducks tend to be a challenge to photograph since they keep their distance, but there's always one in the flock who takes his patrol duty very seriously -- giving me a quick onceover as he swims by. There was just enough filtered sunlight on this inaugural spring afternoon to make the colours of his iridescent head visible.

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Cute Bufflehead Duck at the Pond Postcard

Despite the many pots of butterfly bushes we have growing in the backyard, butterflies like this Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly who stop to drink their nectar are still a rare occurrence (we even have a butterfly motel!) This is an angled top-down shot of one. The visiting Rufous hummingbirds have also given these bushes a number of pokes.

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Swallowtail Butterfly on the Butterfly Bush Postcard

The UBC Botanical Garden is home to a dazzling diversity of flowers and pollinators. This honeybee was one of many who found the creamy white and pink flowers of the narrowleaf milkweed particularly enticing. Photographed on July 10, 2016.

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Honeybee on Narrowleaf Milkweed Plant Postcard

"Little Red" sitting next to lots of red: a handsome male House Finch poses next to some tasty hawthorn / mountain rose berries (a favorite with many year-round feathered residents) in the Boundary Bay Wildlife Management Area.

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House Finch with Hawthorn Berries Postcard

Add a touch of nature to your tumbler with this wildlife-themed design!

Brown Creepers are common all-year-round residents in Metro Vancouver, but it's easy to miss seeing these masters of disguise in the forest. This is the closest I have come to photographing this extremely well-camouflaged bird, and seeing the meal in its bill was a nice added bonus.

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American Treecreeper with Bug Thermal Tumbler

What you choose to build anticipation of a gift with is just as important as the gift itself. This gift bag, which features a newly hatched Mallard duckling paddling in the local pond, is perfect for bird lovers, baby showers, or a child's first birthdays.

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Baby Duckling Paddles in the Local Pond Large Gift Bag

Add a touch of furry whimsy to the kitchen with this adorable, dog-themed kitchen towel.

Ella the Pomeranian was so happy to be the focus of attention that she forgot (for once) to run to the photographer, and instead cracked a smile for me. Photographed in late June 2018.

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Cute Laughing Pomeranian Dog Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the living room with this wildlife-themed lampshade cover.  Extremely tolerant of the long lens pointed at her from some six feet away, a female Rufous Hummingbird--a regular backyard visitor--sits on twining grape and kiwi vines in the cool of a mid-spring evening.

Beautiful Rufous Hummingbird on Twining Vines Tripod Lamp

Chubby White-Crowned Sparrow in the Winter Sun Glass Coaster

Chubby White-Crowned Sparrow in the Winter Sun Coaster

Chubby White-Crowned Sparrow in the Winter Sun Jigsaw Puzzle

The rounder the songbird, the cuter it is. This little puffball is ready for a chilly weekend of sub-zero temperatures in Metro Vancouver! An adult White-Crowned Sparrow cuts a dashing figure at Boundary Bay Regional Park in South Delta, British Columbia, Canada, on the first day of the Great Backyard Bird Count 2018.

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WWN Chubby White-Crowned Sparrow in the Winter Sun

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

One of several harbor seals plying the waters near the end of the White Rock Pier boardwalk in beautiful British Columbia on a lightly overcast morning in early November 2021.

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Curious Harbor Seal Swims the Pier Dock Jigsaw Puzzle

Add a touch of nature and whimsy with your golf game with this wildlife-themed club head cover!

A presumed hobby farm escapee, this adult male Mandarin Duck has been seen in the company of the Wood Ducks of Piper Spit. He has called Burnaby Lake home since he was first spotted in 2018. His stunning pastiche of ruffs, dazzling color palette, and "fins" make him such a dreamboat to photograph. Mother Nature left nothing to the artist's imagination when she made this creature! Photographed at Burnaby Lake in early March 2020.

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Beautiful Chatty Mandarin Duck on the Shore Golf Head Cover

Invite spring and family, friends, and other visitors to your home with this customizable floral-themed welcome mat! Customize as desired.

A prolonged cold winter snap has delayed the bloom of many spring flowers in Metro Vancouver, but this massive bloom of yellow and bicolored white-on-yellow daffodils at the top of Burnaby Mountain has made up for the lack of natural color in March and April. Photographed in early May 2017.

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Cute Tree Swallow Babies Looking at Big World Postcard

Cute Tree Swallow Babies Looking at Big World Postcard

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Other postcards from various stores