Year: 2009
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Casual Birding Outing #69
Nine participants (John & Kay, Cabbie Don & Rochelle, Hoarse Hans, Trini Eleanor, Photog Terry and First-timers Neville and Jean D’Amato) joined me at Iona Park and Sewage Lagoons this morning. Weather was mild and tide was in. A couple of Red-tailed Hawks, Northern Harriers and a flock of Green-winged Teal caught our attention along the Airport road
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Christmas Eve birding – Casual Birders outing #68
Terry, John & Kay and I spent Christmas Eve morning at Tsatsu Shores and around the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal. It was a beautiful sunny, clear and relatively mild morning, and the tide was high. We parked near the Tsatsu Condo and tried to walk to the beach over the logs, but the water was too
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Casual Birding Outing #67
Hans-Ulf, John and Kay and I enjoyed a pleasant, but chilly Monday morning travelling all along the Boundary Bay dyke from 104th down to 64th Street. Rochelle dropped by Petra’s to wish us a Happy Holiday, but had to leave to look after Don’s Bridge friends. As usual, we drove the back roads to 104th,
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Casual Birding Outing #66
Hans-Ulf, John & Kay and I spent Monday morning (before the snow storm) driving around Delta fields on our way to Reifel. First stop was the Kingfisher Bridge at the entrance to the Tsawwassen First Nations Reserve. No Kingfisher but lots of Mallards, American Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Northern Shovelers and one Dunlin in the creek.
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December Birds on the Bay outing
Seventeen grandmothers, parents and children, enjoyed a cold but sunny morning walk through Boundary Bay Park in Tsawwassen on Wednesday. This was the third and final Delta Naturalists’ Fall “Birds on the Bay Casual Birding Outing” (note that we will do three Winter outings in January, February and March; watch for info). There was a
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Casual Birding Outing #65
Five (Anne, Eleanor, John & Kay and me, Roger dropped by for coffee) soaked birders spent this morning at White Rock pier and then Blackie Spit. It was dry when I left home but rained heavily and was windy and miserable almost all morning, until the sun came out at noon, when we quit. Only
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Casual Birding outing number 64: Iona Sewage Lagoons
John & Kay and I went to Iona Park and Sewage Lagoons this morning. It was overcast, spitting rain occasionally, a bit chilly and the water was very high everywhere, but not uncomfortable. Near the airport, approaching the entrance to the sewage plant were a couple hundred Snow Geese (many juveniles) very near the shore.
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November Birds on the Bay outing
Sixteen participants, including some rookies and visitors from Hamilton, Ontario, enjoyed a cool, windy morning of birding on the 2nd Fall “Birds on the Bay Outing” around Boundary Bay Park in Tsawwassen. The tide was in so there were lots (thousands) of ducks to see, up-close-and-personal. Near the park entrance at 12th Avenue, we saw
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Casual Birding outing #63 – November 13 2009
Last Friday, Hans-Ulf, Anne, John & Kay and I (Rochelle dropped in briefly to give an update on Don) enjoyed a windy, cool morning outing along the dyke between 96th and 88th Streets. We left Petra’s at 9:00 a.m. through the back roads past Boundary Bay Airport. There were lots of dabbling ducks, Great Blue
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Tom’s Report on Casual Birding outing #60
We were seven today (Valerie, Anne, Don & Rochelle, John sans Kay, Hans-Ulf and me) on a rainy morning, but it turned warmer and dryer as the morning progressed. Our first stop was Kings Links Golf Course (where I “work”) on 72nd Street at the Bay. The ponds did not have a large number of
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