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Hold the winning "wild" card with these nature-themed playing cards!

Although this fierce-looking falcon looks very much like a Peregrine, it's actually a Gyr-Saker hybrid falcon. Falconers crossbreed both in captivity with the hopes of producing a hybrid with the best traits of both species: in this case, the stamina of the large Gyrfalcon with the speed of the Saker falcon.

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Stunning Gyrfalcon Saker Hybrid Falcon Poker Cards

Stunning Gyrfalcon Saker Hybrid Falcon Playing Cards

Hold the winning "wild" card with these wildlife-themed playing cards! 

An adult Bald Eagle surveys its domain below from its lofty perch in the Boundary Bay Wildlife Management Area. Metro Vancouver is home to thousands of these birds of prey, and seeing 25-50 a day throughout most of the year is not unheard of. 

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Beautiful Bald Eagle in a Tree Playing Cards

Cute Little Northern Saw Whet Owl Playing Cards

The Northern Saw Whet Owl is one of the smallest owls native to North America, and its diminutiveness, combined with those oversized black eyes, might make you think that it is, at first glance, a plush toy!

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WWN Northern Saw Whet Owls

Hold the winning "wild" card with these nature-themed playing cards!

Owls are such fascinating creatures. They are front page newsmakers, drawing the interest of birders, nature lovers, and just about everyone else who has a pulse. Snowy Owls are especially charismatic; the largest owls in North America only show up in Metro Vancouver every few years, and their appearance during our winters causes crowds of admirers and fans to form and flock.

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Beautiful, Dreamy and Serene Snowy Owl Playing Cards

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Looking for all the world like it's saying "deal me in!", this bold and saucy Columbian Ground Squirrel is just trying its luck with the two-legged visitors to Manning Park. 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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Funny Cute Saucy Columbian Ground Squirrel Playing Cards

Hold the winning "wild" card with these nature-themed playing cards! 

A male Wood Duck in all his breeding splendor poses for my lens. Wood Ducks are the most colorful all-year-round resident waterfowl one can find in Metro Vancouver, Canada, and they are equally at home in the water, on land, or in the trees -- being the only duck species who can grasp logs and branches.

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Stunning Wood Duck in the Woods Playing Cards

Hold the winning "wild" card with these nature-themed playing cards! 

The African Superb Starling is such a beautiful rainbow of colours. When it makes an entrance, it really makes an entrance; it's no shrinking violet. Rare, though, is the moment when it stays still long enough to get a photo of it, but got it I did, as it waited for its turn to bathe in the waterfall.

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Stunning African Superb Starling Songbird Playing Cards

Hold the winning "wild" card with these whimsical, wildlife-themed playing cards! 

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 Playing Cards

Add a festive touch to year-end and Christmas celebrations with these elegant floral-themed paper cups.

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 an even more festive touch to year-end holidays as a popular centerpiece.

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Festive Red White Floral Christmas Poinsettias Paper Cups

Keep notes, reminders, and more in this whimsical, wildlife-themed journal. The perfect choice for hummingbird lovers! 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.

Stunning Rufous Hummingbird on Twining Vines Notebook

Add a touch of tasty to the bedroom or living room with this elegant, food-themed trivet, which features a homegrown (and oddball) medley of striped, green, purple, and yellow tomatoes on a weathered grey picnic table, is great for improving muscle memory. Pictured tomato cultivars include Green Zebra, Red Zebra, Indigo Rose, Brandywine, Black Prince, Midnight Snack cherry, and heirloom cherry.  

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Colorful Striped Tomatoes on Weathered Table Trivet

Rudbeckia Fulgida / Orange Coneflower Fleece Blanket

Beautiful Floral Rudbeckia Orange Coneflowers Apron

Beautiful Rudbeckia Fulgida / Orange Coneflowers Fleece Blanket

Rudbeckia Fulgida / Orange Coneflower Serving Tray

Rudbeckia Fulgida / Orange Coneflower Long Table Runner

Beautiful Yellow Floral Rudbeckias Coneflowers Drawstring Bag

Rudbeckias are some of my favourite summertime flowers, especially when these buttery yellow beauties bloom like this. Photographed in mid-August 2016 at Colony Farm Regional Park.

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WWN Beautiful Black-Eyed Susans

Add a little character and whimsy to the office -- or office party -- with this wildlife-themed tie.  A Hooded Merganser drake puts in a surprise appearance in one of our newer local ponds. This one is warming up his vocal chops in hopes of impressing the two hens in his small flock.

Singer in the Making: Hooded Merganser Neck Tie

Add a touch of nature to treasured memories and moments with this wildlife-themed binder! The perfect choice for bird lovers!

Rufous Hummingbirds have usually left Metro Vancouver for Mexico by mid August, so it was a delight to see and photograph this exceedingly feisty straggler in the backyard. This little scrapper has been (successfully, for the past two days) giving grief to the juvenile male Anna's hummingbird who has owned the backyard for most of the summer (as well as the other feathered friends who visit), vigorously defending every flower and feeder in sight. This hybrid fruit tree branch has become its favorite perch, and gave me quite a few photographic opportunities. Photographed on September 4, 2016.

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Adorable Rufous Hummingbird on Branch Binder

Add a little character to the office -- or office party -- with this whimsical, wildlife-themed tie.  One of my favourite birds to photograph, and one of the most elusive as well. This lovely male Varied Thrush was a bit stunned but none the worse for wear after flying into a window, but he chose to take five on the cherry tree -- giving me time to capture his beauty from the upper floor sunroom, some 15 feet away.

Stunning Gyrfalcon Saker Hybrid Falcon Playing Cards

Stunning Gyrfalcon Saker Hybrid Falcon Playing Cards

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