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Add a touch of nature and whimsy to the bedroom or living room with this wildlife-themed throw. 

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).

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Four Funny Faces of Hooded Mergansers Ducks Throw Pillow

Add a touch of nature to the living room, bedroom, or any room in your home with this whimsical, wildlife-themed throw.

During my second visit to Surrey's Elgin Heritage Park, I was privileged to see a Golden-Crowned Kinglet in a giant fir tree. My high-energy, multi-tasking subject proved to be a challenging subject to capture.

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Cute Kinglet Songbird Causes a Stir in the Fir Throw Pillow

Add a touch of nature and whimsy to the bedroom or living room with this touching, wildlife-themed throw. 

My second visit to the Maplewood Conservation Area in North Vancouver produced meetings with not two, but six blacktail deer in a forest clearing ... four fawns and two does who seemed completely at ease with the small group of photographers in their midst. This is one of the two deer families ... a doe with her first year and second year fawns. Photographed in late August 2016.

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Stunning Trio of Blacktail Deer in the Forest Throw Pillow

Add a touch of nature to the bedroom or living room with this wildlife-themed throw! 

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 Throw Pillow

Add a touch of nature to the bedroom or living room with this wildlife-themed throw pillow, which features my first encounter with a Tropical Kingbird at Boundary Bay Regional Park in beautiful Tsawwassen, British Columbia. An unusual visitor during Pacific Northwest autumn months, the Tropical Kingbird adds a cheery bit of color to the fall with its striking butter yellow belly. This dazzling creature was relaxing in the early afternoon sun while a host of wildlife photographers quietly captured it in all its glory. Moments later, this large tyrant flycatcher was swallowing a Blue Darner dragonfly that it had swiftly and successfully hunted! Photographed in late October 2023.

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

Stunning Tropical Kingbird on Blackberry Branch Throw Pillow

Add a touch of nature to the living room, bedroom, or any room in your home with this throw! 

Even from a distance, this large Japanese maple tree draws attention to itself with a lovely profusion of crimson leaves. Photographed in early June 2017.

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Japanese Red Maple Leaves Lumbar Pillow

Add a touch of nature and cheeriness to the bedroom or living room with this floral-themed throw! 

Wax begonias are popular flowers and long-lasting summertime perennials. The gardener who planted these white, pink, and red varieties had a great eye for color and layout! Photographed in late August 2016 on the outskirts of the UBC Botanical Garden.

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Colorful Floral Medley of Wax Begonias Lumbar Pillow

Add a touch of nature to the living room, bedroom, or any room with this whimsical, wildlife-themed throw.

A curious and very active Ruby-Crowned Kinglet explores a fruit-laden hawthorn bush (not for the berries, but for insects!) on a fine autumn afternoon. Photographed in early November 2020.

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Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Songbird on Hawthorn Bush Throw Pillow

My second visit to the Maplewood Conservation Area in North Vancouver produced meetings with not two, but six blacktail deer in a clearing ... four fawns and two does who seemed completely at ease with the small group of photographers in their midst. The younger ones seemed almost as curious about the humans as we were about them! This fawn was extremely happy to be alive, bounding in a very Bambi-esque manner through the forest! Photographed in late August 2016.

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Funny Young Blacktail Deer Smiles at Photographer Magnet

Add a touch of nature to your golf game with this floral-themed club head cover!

This stunning bearded iris germanica amazed me with a multi-colored splendor of red, yellow, and white. Photographed in early June 2017.

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Elegant Multi-Colored Bearded Iris Germanica Golf Head Cover

Funny Cute Saucy Columbian Ground Squirrel Glass Coaster

Columbian Ground Squirrels are some of the most entertaining wildlife at Manning Park, and the first ones to greet us in the resort parking lot. 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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WWN Funny Columbian Ground Squirrel Pulls up to a Bar

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this whimsical, wildlife-themed sandstone coaster. 

Although this handsome and talented singer--garbed in dazzling whites, crisp blacks, rich brown streaks, and a yellow/green cap--was quick to regale us with his cheery, energetic aria on many occasions, opportunities to photograph him on the local mountain flora were few and far between. His presence was a delight to local birders like myself, for this songbird is a very rare sight in the West; Chestnut-Sided Warblers are normally found in the Canadian Prairies and provinces eastward. Photographed in early July 2018 on Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Chestnut-Sided Warbler Songbird on a Branch Coaster

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

Holding tightly onto a branch on a gusty May 2016 afternoon at Iona Island is this male Yellow-Headed Blackbird. He often stopped for short periods between fetching meals for his offspring. His mate was also in the nearby marsh. My closest encounter with these strikingly-coloured birds!

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Gorgeous Yellow-Headed Blackbird on a Windy Day Wall Decal

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this elegant, floral-themed placemat, which features blooming allium giganteum (giant onion) flowers photographed against a bokeh of green and brown. The purple umbels not only add a splash of vibrant color and shape to gardens, but they are edible, too!

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Purple Allium Giganteum Giant Onion Flowers Placemat

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

After being denied my first butterfly photo of 2014–first by a butterfly enthusiast successfully wielding her butterfly net after a Butterfly Symposium on garden grounds, and then having another butterfly almost land on my lens less than an hour later, I captured a Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on the last mile of our meanderings through the UBC Botanical Garden.

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

Four Funny Faces of Hooded Mergansers Ducks Throw Pillow

Four Funny Faces of Hooded Mergansers Ducks Throw Pillow

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Other decorative & throw pillows from various stores