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Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! About 4 of the 10 Horned Grebes we spotted at Blackie Spit were swimming and diving uncharacteristically close to the main walking path of Crescent Beach -- close for Horned Grebes, that is (about 20-30 feet away). The fishing was obviously quite good near shore. My closest encounter with these birds. They are exhibiting neither the flamboyant yellow horns nor red-and-black breeding plumage during this season, but those red eyes and dapper tux are nonetheless mesmerizing!

Profile of a Horned Grebe Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

Perfectly reflected in the tranquil waters of this pond is this Northern Pintail drake. They may be most commonly seen in West Coast winters, but I've encountered these ducks all year round at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary.

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Reflections of a Northern Pintail Duck Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel!

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 Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this customizable festive, floral-themed kitchen towel that's perfect for home-cooked Christmas dinners! 

Poinsettias are most often associated with Christmas, and, surrounded here by cream coloured Yellow Snow poinsettias, the speckled leaves of this particular variety -- known as Shimmer Surprise Poinsettia -- add a warm and celebratory touch to year-end holidays as a popular centerpiece.

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Festive Red White Floral Poinsettias Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

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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Black Oystercatcher Shorebird Fishing at the Beach Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

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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A Meeting of Hooded Merganser Ducks at the Pond Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! Sanderlings are tiny -- and surprisingly, quite approachable -- migratory shorebirds that can be easily found on Vancouver beaches in the coldest winter months. This one was strolling quite leisurely on the shoreline. Photographed on a very sunny and busy winter afternoon at Boundary Bay Regional Park.

Sanderling Strolling a Winter Beach Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed kitchen towel! 

The first full day of snow in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, saw many fluffed up songbirds in the backyard perched on the fruit trees for most of the day, including at least two Cassiar Dark-Eyed Juncos (an intergrade of Slate-Colored and Oregon varieties), like this chubby little number here.  Photographed on December 9, 2016.

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Slate-Colored Dark-Eyed Junco on the Pear Tree Kitchen Towel

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

The start of the growing season means the return of the diminutive but feisty Rufous Hummingbirds to Metro Vancouver. From March through August, their presence means increased competition for nectar feeders and flowers for the resident Anna's hummingbirds. This fellow was one of five Rufouses to visit the Richmond Nature Park regularly on an early spring day. We witnessed extremely vocal and physical territorial disputes (which were, rather comically, inversely proportional to the size of the combatants). Photographed on April 4, 2016.

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Perfectly Posed Male Rufous Hummingbird Thermal Tumbler

This was a Christmas Day filled with plenty of birds in the backyard -- including this rather introspective Black-Capped Chickadee looking skyward on the pear tree. Sunny skies and chilly temps made my puffed up and sleepy feathered friends reluctant to stir from their perches, and that led to a few opportunities for closeups of birds I normally find difficult to get stills of.

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A Black-Capped Chickadee on the Pear Tree Keychain

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Jigsaw Puzzle

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Tote Bag

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Post-it Notes

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Square Wall Clock

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Tile

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Trivet

Next to the Brown Hawker dragonfly who made a beeline for me last summer and decided that my denim-covered leg would make a nice warm perch for a few minutes, this extremely accommodating Canada Darner dragonfly has got to be one of my best insect subjects. S/he didn't twitch in the 30 minutes I spent photographing it, and as a matter of fact, stayed on the exterior of the house for at least another 15 minutes before flying off!

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WWN Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly

WWN Japanese Andromeda Bonfire

WWN Satin Flowers on Black

WWN Elegant Maple Leaf Tulips

WWN Elegant Pink Lotus Flowers

WWN Elegant Casablanca White Oriental Lilies

WWN Red and Yellow Monsella Tulips

From tulip and rose to iris and lily, flowers mark the seasons in North America, and they dazzling with a multitude of shapes and colors.

WWN Floral

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

A herd of harbour seals was basking in the summer sun as the ferry pulled out of the Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway. Most of these pinnipeds ignored the behemoth moving in their midst, but a few, like the curious one on the left, would lift its head to see what the commotion was all about before assuming its original position. Photographed over the 150th Canada Day long weekend in early July.

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Harbor Seals Basking in the Summer Sun Jigsaw Puzzle

You'd never guess, from her playful and youthful manner, that Stella is actually 10 to 12 years older than she looks! This indoor sweetie is as likely to cuddle up to the laps of strangers as she is to those of her regular pair of humans, but she knows how to puts her paw down as far as dogs (especially big dogs) are concerned.

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Stella the Gray Cat Magnet

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

A young sub-adult male Anna's hummingbird was taking five in the scarlet firethorn next to its pommes on an unseasonably prolonged cold snap. Unlike most other birds who frequent this bush in the fall and winter, he didn't seem to mind that I wrestled the window open (however softly I did it), and took a few shots of him next to the bunch of berries that's almost as big as he is. Photographed in mid-December 2016.

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

Profile of a Horned Grebe Kitchen Towel

Profile of a Horned Grebe Kitchen Towel

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Other kitchen towels from various stores