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This is a closeup of flowering pineapple guava aka guavasteen (which resembles St. John's Wort) in the backyard. This is the self-pollinating variety, and one of the newest additions to our backyard garden. The birds have started taking notice, too. Being dark green on the avocado-shaped exterior and creamy yellow or white on the inside, though, the fruit isn't anywhere as exotic looking as the flowers.

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Flowering Pineapple Guava / Guavasteen / Feijoa Postcard

Doing a flyby over the local ferry causeway at very close range on an early and blustery afternoon was this adult Ring-Billed Gull. I found this photo, which captures the downstroke, to be even more dramatic than the upstroke. 

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Breathtaking Ring-Billed Gull in Flight 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

Her cobalt blue mascara never runs! Quiet as her mate is noisy, this female Eclectus Parrot surprised me even further by choosing to perch uncharacteristically close to my lens.

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Beautiful "Lady in Red" Eclectus Parrot Postcard

These homegrown cherry tomatoes show a natural, cascading transition from ripe to ripening to unripe fruit. Photographed in early September 2017 in the backyard.

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A Colorful Gradient of Homegrown Cherry Tomatoes Postcard

A number of these large butterflies were flying through the Boundary Bay Wildlife Management Area during our early evening visit, but this one was "kind" enough to grant us an impromptu studio session for a few minutes while it fluttered and fed from the local flora.

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Beautiful Anise Swallowtail Butterfly in the Sun Postcard

7 Killdeer were frequenting the mudflats near the pumphouse at Boundary Bay Regional Park / Centennial Beach after the first snowfall to truly blanket the region and turn normally flowing watercourses into frozen lakes of ice and snow. In my admittedly short 2 years of birding, I have never encountered Killdeer at this time of the year (winter is a week away), let alone under the current weather conditions. Photographed in mid-December 2016 during an unseasonably prolonged cold snap.

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Killdeer Shorebird on Icy Mudflats Postcard

I was privy to a very special moment in late May 2016 when I saw this Greater Sandhill Crane father, a veteran parent, searching for wood bugs with his 3-day-old colt. It's hard to believe that such a small creature could grow up into one of the largest bird species found in Metro Vancouver!

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Greater Sandhill Crane Father and Child Postcard

Add a touch of nature and wonder to your walls with this wildlife-themed decal! Perfect for bird lovers!

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 Wall Decal

Add a touch of nature and whimsy to your bathroom with this wildlife-themed shower curtain! Hooded Mergansers not only look different from your average North American ducks, but their courtship rituals are fascinating to watch, too. The males engage in plenty of frog-like croaking, head-to-back arches, neck stretching, and wing flapping -- all maneuvers which are pretty much guaranteed to get them largely unnoticed if not completely ignored from the females of their own kind (who have seen it many times before).

Four Faces of Hooded Mergansers Throw Pillow Shower Curtain

Add a touch of nature to any room with this wildlife-themed wall hanging.  

Two of a dozen of Harlequin Ducks I had the fortune of meeting at the beach, and my closest encounter with these diving sea ducks. Interestingly, all were adult males in near or full breeding plumage and showing off their slate grey, white, and rich cinnamon feathers, but there were no ladies of their own kind to impress. Photographed on the first full day of spring 2017.
 
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Beautiful Harlequin Ducks on the Rocks Canvas Print

Add a touch of nature to the living room with this wildlife-themed lampshade cover.  The sudden appearance of three Bald Eagles--working the waters of Boundary Bay Regional Park--sends thousands of American Wigeons (and the odd Northern Pintail) into the sunny but chilly late November skies.

Stunning Winter Ducks in Flight Ceiling Lamp

Part brainteaser, part assemble-it-yourself art, this challenging, wildlife-themed puzzle is great for improving muscle memory. This photo was voted one of America's Favorite Birds. Over 250,000 votes were cast to see which 15 (of 42) birds were selected for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Coloring Book, to be released in the fall of 2016.  A male Green-Winged Teal enjoys the calm waters of Piper Spit/Burnaby Lake. This dabbling duck is tied with the Bufflehead, a diving duck, for the title of the smallest ducks in North America.

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Handsome Green-Winged Teal Duck on Golden Pond Jigsaw Puzzle

Even on a hazy day, you can see forever. A million-dollar view of some of the Southern Gulf Islands from the top of Mount Galiano. The dragonflies were as thick as thieves at the highest point of Galiano Island, and 2-3 Turkey Vultures coasted 30-40 feet above our heads. We even witnessed a small (trio) of orca whales passing by. Not a bad reward for a relatively easy hike! Photographed in early July 2017.

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Southern Gulf Islands as seen from Mount Galiano Poster

This whimsical wildlife design features a handsome male Eclectus Parrot who tends to be loud and given to overacting when he wants your attention ... a colorful personality with equally colorful "fowl" language.

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Flowering Pineapple Guava / Guavasteen / Feijoa Postcard

Flowering Pineapple Guava / Guavasteen / Feijoa Postcard

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Other postcards from various stores