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Add a touch of nature and elegance to the kitchen or dining room with this floral-themed serving tray! This photo was selected as a NatGeo Your Shot Daily Dozen pick! An even closer closeup of the stamens of St. John's Wort (or what I like to call the Fibre Optic plant), which has suddenly flowered en masse, spilling over the fence into the gravel surrounding the blueberry patch.

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

Fields of Red and Gold: Closeup of St. John's Wort Serving Tray

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

My first (and closest) encounter with a Sooty Grouse at Burnaby Mountain. This handsome fellow was hardly shy around the photographers, but kept largely to the base of the trees and the shadows. When the other photographers had left,  he came out for a little one-on-one time, "treating" me to dances around the remaining photographer and softly modulated hoots -- even following me partway down to the playground!

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Beautiful Sooty Grouse in the Grass Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! The perfect choice for bird lovers! 

This gorgeous loner, a late migrant Ruddy Turnstone, had no qualms about the myriad of lenses pointed his way on an early sunny afternoon at the south side of the Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty.  From time to time, he would amaze us with his extraordinary feats of strength (this involved lifting clumps of kelp much bigger than himself, in his search for grubs and other tasty aquatic comestibles that shorebirds such as he would find irresistibly delectable -- great comic relief). Once in a while, he would pause to show us his best side (all of them). Clearly, he knew that the spotlight was on him, and he used it to his best advantage. My first encounter with this well-camouflaged shorebird, and another bird for my life list.

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A Showstopping Ruddy Turnstone Serving Tray

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

An unusual bird to see in Metro Vancouver during the fall migratory bird season, this Buff-Breasted Sandpiper was one of two I had the opportunity to photograph up close, and one of five spotted here in 2016. Like the Sanderling, the BBSA is exceedingly comfortable around humans. 

The BBSA is special for another reason: fewer than 80,000 individuals are estimated worldwide (per data from migration sites and its allaboutbirds.org/guide/Buff-breasted_Sandpiper/id profile; actual figures are difficult to obtain, as it does not always exhibit nest fidelity), making it a Near Threatened species. Its dainty, dove-like head, short bill, and buff coloration make it one of the easier peeps to identify. It is a transcontinental bird, flying northwards to breed in the arctic, and wintering in South America.

Rather comically, this one spent some time chasing the other one off. Apparently, it wanted the attention of the photographers all to itself! When it wasn't hogging the limelight, it made sure every lens was trained on it -- regardless of what it was doing -- foraging, resting on the grass, or grooming its feathers.  Photographed in late August 2016.

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

Profile of a Buff-Breasted Sandpiper at the Beach Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed serving tray! The perfect choice for bird lovers! This late afternoon closeup of a male Wood Duck ensured that the fading winter sun's rays weren't casting harsh shadows on my subject. This handsome fellow clearly knew that I wanted solos of him, and was more than happy to oblige me with several angles.

Wood Duck on Gravel 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 serving tray! 

This is homegrown and freshly sprayed wheatgrass that I photographed in the early dawn's light one spring morning in early June 2017.

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Bedewed Wheatgrass in the Morning Light Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature and serve up a side of funny to the dining experience with this whimsical, wildlife-themed serving tray.

Blue Jays may be one of North America's most iconic bird species, but they are rarely found on the West Coast. However, this one has discovered that Ladner Harbor Park in beautiful British Columbia is a great place to hang out and avoid the nasty snowfalls of the east. S/he's been "resident" in this forest since early November 2020 and grants an audience to whomever is willing to shell out a handout of peanuts first. Photographed in late March 2021. 

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

Cute Blue Jay Songbird on Treestump Serving Tray

Add a touch of nature to your correspondence with these whimsical, wildlife-inspired address labels!

Caught Mr. (or Mrs.?) Three-Toed Black-Capped Chickadee by the old apple tree, with the pink leaves of the pieris japonica shrub in bloom behind it. A resident pair of these little resident songbirds is, once again, raising a new brood in the old nestbox, and keeping away the intruders. Photographed in April 2017.

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Cute Black-Capped Chickadee Songbird on Apple Tree Label

Stunning Wood Duck in the Pond Ornament

One of many Wood Ducks to call Reifel Bird Sanctuary home, especially during the fall/winter/spring seasons in the Pacific Northwest. 

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WWN Stunning Wood Duck in the Pond

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

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 Notebook

Nothing says "you complete me" or "your better/other half" than these whimsical, wildlife-themed lovers' mugs.

This handsome fellow actually made a beeline to the wharf from which I was photographing a trio of Double-Crested Cormorants ... apparently all these avian "marina users" are quite comfortable around humans. Although they are the Queen's birds, Mute Swans are considered an invasive species in North America on account of their natural behaviours, which upset the native ecosystem, and efforts have been made to keep their numbers down. However, my subject, is just one of fewer than 300 wild Mute Swans who inhabit British Columbian waters.

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Mute Swans Coffee Mug Set

Stunning Black Oystercatcher Shorebird with Clam Mini Binder

Stunning Black Oystercatcher Shorebird with Clam Trinket Tray

Black Oystercatcher Shorebird Fishing at the Beach Gel Mouse Pad

Stunning Black Oystercatcher with Clam Tote Bag

Stunning Black Oystercatcher Shorebird with Clam Golf Head Cover

Seafood dining at its best! One of five Black Oystercatchers we spotted on a windy, cloudy day at the Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty over the Great Backyard Bird Count 2017 (Feb 17-20) weekend. The fishing (clamming?) was good ... these shorebirds were hauling in clam after clam after clam!

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WWN Stunning Black Oystercatcher Shorebird with Clam

A rather interesting top-down view of a Great Blue Heron at the local wildlife refuge. I've been spotted by my subject, but this efficient (and, at times, ruthless) fisher is in no hurry to move from its spot. Great Blue Herons are the most commonly seen herons in Metro Vancouver, and may be even spotted in ditches along highways and freeways.

A Top-Down View of a Blue Heron

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with these stunning wildlife-themed acrylic coasters, which feature four amazing raptors (clockwise from top left): red-tailed hawk, short-eared owl, bald eagle, and northern harrier. A great gift idea for bird and nature lovers!

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

Fields of Red and Gold: Closeup of St. John's Wort Serving Tray

Fields of Red and Gold: Closeup of St. John's Wort Serving Tray

More from Walks with Nature

Other serving trays from various stores