What you choose to build anticipation of a gift with is just as important as the gift itself. This gift bag, which features a touching moment between two old friends in the summer sun, is perfect for horse lovers, or ideal for showing how special that friend is.

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Two Beautiful Chestnut Horses in the Sun Large Gift Bag

What you choose to build anticipation of a gift with is just as important as the gift itself. This gift bag, which features a wisdom of feathered Snowy Owls having what looks like a chuckle and a chortle at the photographer, is perfect for bird and nature lovers.

Wildlife and the magic of the holiday season go hand in hand, and no bird wears winter better or is more strongly associated with the season of cold than the charismatic Snowy Owl. 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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Dreamy Wisdom of Snowy Owls Large Gift Bag

What you choose to build anticipation of a gift with is just as important as the gift itself. This gift bag, which features an adorable quartet of precocious Canada Goose goslings, is perfect for bird lovers, children's birthday parties, or baby showers.

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Cuteness on Parade: Canada Goose Goslings Large Gift Bag

What you choose to build anticipation of a gift with is just as important as the gift itself. This gift bag, which features a beautiful male Mountain Bluebird, is the perfect choice for bird or nature lovers.

My second encounter with a male Mountain Bluebird. We are gifted, albeit very briefly, with the presence of these beautiful songbirds at the start of the spring season before they head to higher ground to breed. Those stunning cerulean colors stand out on a dreary landscape, even from a distance. When he wasn't busy diving for insects on the local beach, he was highpointing it on driftwood and stalks of dessicated tansy. Photographed at Boundary Bay Regional Park in early spring 2017.

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Beautiful Mountain Bluebird on the Tansy Small Gift Bag

What you choose to build anticipation of a gift with is just as important as the gift itself. This gift bag, which features a capybara napping in the heat of the summer sun, is perfect for nature lovers, or for sharing a funny moment with a friend--old or new.

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A Cute Capybara Dreams in the Summer Sun Large Gift Bag

What you choose to build anticipation of a gift with is just as important as the gift itself.  This gift bag, which features a bed of rhodohypoxis (rosy posy) is the perfect choice for a summer garden party, a friend with a green thumb, or Mother's Day.

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Rhodohypoxis / Red Star / Rosy Posy Medium Gift Bag

What you choose to build anticipation of a gift with is just as important as the gift itself. This gift bag, which features 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, is perfect for bird lovers.

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Adorable Anna's Hummingbird on Berry Bush Large Gift Bag

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this stunning premium wildlife-themed acrylic coaster set, which features four dazzlingly colorful birds (clockwise from top left): african superb starling, crested wood partridge, green-winged macaw, and golden pheasant! A great gift idea for bird and nature lovers!

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Colorful Exotic Tropical Birds of the World Coaster Set

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

This is the first time I've been to Stanley Park in the autumn. On this chilly day, the waters were swimming with so much waterfowl, including American Wigeons, Black Oystercatchers, Surf Scoters, Hooded Mergansers, Common Mergansers, Harlequin Ducks, Double-Crested Cormorants, the odd Pied-Billed Grebe, and hundreds of Barrow's Goldeneyes. What surprised me was how comfortable (and perhaps, even curious) some of these seabirds were with the various human users (bikers, hikers, dogwalkers), of the Stanley Park Seawall. 

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Barrow's Goldeneye Ducks at Stanley Park Seawall Jigsaw Puzzle

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

This lovely profusion of small white flowers was found decorating the main "square" of the VanDusen Botanical Garden.  Bridal Wreath Spirea is relatively easy to care for, but can grow up to 10 feet tall and wide if not pruned.

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Beautiful Bridal Wreath Spiraea Jigsaw Puzzle

Male and Female Surf Scoter Ducks at the Pier Canvas Print

Male and Female Surf Scoter Ducks at the Pier Jigsaw Puzzle

That the Surf Scoters of White Rock Pier are habituated to the presence of humans is a bit of an understatement. This handsome and tame drake and hen pair was one of hundreds of these large black seaducks who routinely passed under the boardwalk during a crisp but sunny morning visit in early November 2019, giving great bird's eye views of that colorful and comically oversized schnoz that the ladies of his kind have found so fascinating for so long.

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WWN Surf Scoter Ducks at the Pier

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

Beautiful Varied Thrush Songbird in the Tree Notebook

Stunning Rufous Hummingbird on the Cherry Tree Postcard

Stunning Rufous Hummingbird on the Cherry Tree Trivet

Stunning Rufous Hummingbird on Cherry Branch

Stunning Rufous Hummingbird on the Cherry Tree Magnet

We had our first trio of Rufous hummingbirds arrive in the backyard in early April 2017. This adult male was uncharacteristically taken with the early-blooming flowering currant bush and the sextet of hummingbird feeders scattered throughout the area, and stayed for a week--a real treat, considering most of the adult males usually only stay a day, passing through to more northern climes (Alaska) for the breeding season. Getting a decent shot of him has been a cat-and-mouse game, however, and this pose of him on the cherry tree (with his flashing reddish gorget and rufous feathers) was only possible because my subject did not know that he was being photographed.

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WWN Stunning Rufous Hummingbird on the Cherry Tree

Add a splash of personality to your wrist with a wildlife-themed watch from the walkswithnature™ Watch the Birdie™ collection. 

Our resident adult male Anna's hummingbird has never let me photograph him at close range, but on one evening in late May 2016, he came to sit on one of the old plum tree branches, just a few feet away from me. 

Perhaps, after seeing how comfortable the four visiting Rufous hummingbirds were around me, he probably figured that there wasn't anything scary about me -- and that I might even afford him some protection from the little hellraisers. So rather than being on the receiving end of his metallic scratchy or tick-tick-tick calls, he stared for a few moments into my lens, and then went to feed from the nectar feeder before making a much less frenzied exit than was his usual style.

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Male Anna's Hummingbird on the Plum Tree Watch

This stunning wildlife design features a curious and vocal Marsh Wren, darting out of the rushes (just long enough for me to snap a photo) of a man-made lake.

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Two Beautiful Chestnut Horses in the Sun Large Gift Bag

Two Beautiful Chestnut Horses in the Sun Large Gift Bag

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