Year: 2010
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2010-07 Reifel Bird Sanctuary ~ Casual Birding #76
Jim, Hans-Ulf, Lorna and I spent a lovely Monday morning at Reifel Bird Sanctuary. This was an “unscheduled” outing as we have our Birds on the Bay event this Wednesday. Reifel is always a good outing but in February it is especially good as all the winter residents are in beautiful breeding plumage, and very
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Brunswick Point ~ Casual Birding #75
Ten birders enjoyed a dry and mild morning outing to Brunswick Point and then to 112th Street and Highway #10. We learned from Kay at Petra’s that she saw and photographed a Long-eared Owl at Brunswick Point on both Saturday and Sunday. So we drove (3 cars with Don & Rochelle, Terry, John & Kay,
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Casual birding outing #73 Alaksen
Belted Kingfisher at Kingfisher Bridge Nine birders (Val, Don & Rochelle, John & Kay, Hans-Ulf, Roger, Terry) joined me on Monday morning on an outing via the Tsawwassen First Nations Reserve and South Ladner farmers’ fields to Alaksen NWA. It was an off-and-on rainy morning but relatively mild. Our first stop was the “Kingfisher Bridge”
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Casual Birders go to Campbell Valley Park ~ outing#72
Seven of us (Rochelle, Val, John & Kay, Terry, Roger and me) went to Campbell Valley Park in Surrey this morning in search of the Great Gray Owl that Roger had seen yesterday. It was overcast and rainy when we left Petra’s at 9:00 a.m., but it turned out to be a gorgeous sunny and warm
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First winter Birds on the Bay outing
A dozen brave souls, including several rookies, joined me this morning in the rain on Delta Nats first Winter “Birds on the Bay” Casual Birding outing at Boundary Bay Park in Tsawwassen. At the park entrance at the foot of 12th Avenue, we watched the Canada Geese, Great Blue Herons and dabbling ducks (e.g. Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Mallards, etc) foraging.
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Casual Birding#71 Boundary Bay dyke
Six of us saw more birds than you can imagine this morning on Boundary Bay along the dyke between 88th and 104th Streets. Anne, with daughter Cat(herine) and future son-in-law Chris visiting from NYC, Hans-Ulf and scope-porter Ron Dennett joined me. We drove the back roads to 88th and saw lots of Bald Eagles (they’re back;
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Casual Birding #70 Point Roberts
We had an eccentric group of 10 birders on a rainy and discombobulated outing to Point Roberts this morning. First-timer Judy Kilcup along with Anne’s present and future New York City children, Catharine & Chris, were welcomed by the regulars. Photo evidence of the group taken at Petra’s (without Roger and photog Don), along with a few shots of some birds
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