Year: 2010
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2010 in Review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads: “This blog is doing awesome!” Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,700 times in 2010. That’s about
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DNCB Outing #124 to Point Roberts
Nine birders (Anne, Terry, Rick & Marg, Lorna, Bill & Mary M, Hans-Ulf and me) braved the cold this morning on an outing to Point Roberts, USA. Don & Rochelle showed up at Petra’s to wish us all a Merry Christmas. First stop was Lighthouse Park where a flock (50+) of Sanderling was feeding along
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DNCB Outing #122 Northern Hawk-owl Hunt December 6, 2010
Photos by Rick Woolley A beautiful December morning, cold but clear, Lorna, Terry, Don, Rochelle, Marg, Rick and Roger decided to head towards Westham Island to see if the recently seen Northern Hawk Owl could be found. Following the usual route beginning at the ferry jetty, we passed some small grebes (probably Horned) on the north side,
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DNCB Outing #121 Deer Lake Outing November 29, 2010
On a not too promising day with much rain forecast, four members, Lorna, Hans, Terry and Roger, met at Petra’s and decided to take a chance on the weather and try Deer Lake for a change. Parking off Royal Oak Avenue in Burnaby, we had good luck at the start of the trail in the
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Casual Birding Trip #119 to Garry Point November 15th 2010
Photo by Roger Meyer Six intrepid birders (John, Kay, Lorna, Hans, Terry and Roger) met at Petras on a dull and unpromising day to decide on our trip destination. One suggestion was to bird from our comfortable seats inside the coffee shop, but drill sergeant Lorna spurred us into action. After passing through the tunnel, we
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Casual Bird Outing #118 to Beach Grove
Six intrepid birders (Terry, John, Kay, Lorna, Eleanor and Roger) met at Petra’s this morning to decide on the birding site. The weather was perfect but chilly but warmed up as the day progressed. We started at the Beach Grove elementary school parking area and roamed the adjacent park where we were rewarded with a
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Point Roberts solo #117
The group today was a bit smaller than usual consisting of myself feeling like a birding orphan. Not to be deterred I decided to go across to Point Roberts where, by pure luck, the customs computer chose me for a full scale examination…inside questioning, form filling, and a car search. At lighthouse park the rain
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Boundary Bay dyke in the rain #116
Six intrepid Casual Birders (John, Roger, Lorna, Marg, Rick and Anne) decided to go for a walk in the pouring rain this morning . We were minus Kay, who decided she wasn’t going to get soaking wet, and minus our famous leader Tom who’s off having fun elsewhere. It was my bright idea to go to the dyke since
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