Year: 2014
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DNS Display at Richmond Raptor Festival, Terra Nova Park
On Sunday, August 17, Delta Nats participated in the annual Richmond Raptor Festival. Similar to the previous Ladner Animal Expo and Starry Night events, we used Roger’s van to cart our Display material to Terra Nova Park. This event runs from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. so we started setting up there around 9:30 a.m.
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DNS Display at Starry Night, Deas Island park
On Saturday evening, August 16, Delta Nats again had their Display at the annual Starry Night event at Deas Island Park. This event is co-organized by Metro Vancouver Parks and Delta Corporation Parks & Recreation. We had three tables of our hands-on artefacts, educational and informative stuff under our “tired” red tent, plus Roger’s little
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DNCB Outing No. 2014-32 on Galiano Island
On Wednesday, seventeen “weathered” birders enjoyed a wet but mild ferry ride and strenuous but healthy walk around beautiful Galiano Island. The idiosyncratic group included: our self-proclaimed Leader Roger with newbie ferry-afficionado Kristin, our chauffeur White Rock Al, photog & administrator Terry, the quiet ones Sheila & Hans, PB Lorna back in the fold, Point
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Delta Nats Display at DCAS Animal Expo, Ladner
On a hot and sunny Sunday, August 10, your Delta Naturalists’ Society set up our hands-on Display at Ladner Memorial Park for the 6th annual Delta Community Animal Shelter (DCAS) Animal Expo. It was our first time displaying at this event, and Terry Carr organized a very exciting array of artifacts, photos, games and other
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DNCB Outing No. 2014-31 to Brunswick Point
Photos by Jonathan, Terry, Glen, Liz, Marion & Ken on DNCB Picasa site More than 20 “almost birders” enjoyed another gorgeous Delta morning wandering along the dike path at Brunswick Point. The Shorebirds are arriving here in big numbers for their “feeding pit-stop” on their way south and we had a few other hi-lites including
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DNCB Outing No. 2014-30 to Iona Regional Park
See photos on DNCB Picasa site by Liz Stewart (LS), Bryan King (BK), Marion Shikaze (MS), Terry Carr (TC), Glen Bodie (GB) & Ken Borrie (KB) On another gorgeous Wednesday morning, twenty-five DNCBers, a huge ungainly group, toured Iona Regional Park and the next-door Sewage Lagoons. Hi-lites ranged from the Spotted Sandpipers to Warbler and
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Bird Boxes at Kings Links GC
Photos by Pete Blair This is our 4th Report on the status of the Bird and Bat Boxes that Pete Blair and I have been monitoring at Kings Links Golf Course over the past few years. On Friday, July 25 and Sunday, July 27, Pete and I inspected all 24 nest boxes and the two
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DNCB Outing No. 2014-28 to Pitt Lake
More photos at DNCB Picasa website Eight of us left Petra’s in two cars (Tom, Gerhard, Jane, Julian and Kay, Glen, Roger, Mike) to reunite on the road up to the lake when Roger grabbed a terrified Northern Flicker from under a mob of crows. He launched it into nearby dense shrubbery, in hopes it
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DNCB Outing No. 2014-27 on Cruise in San Juan Islands
On Wednesday, July 9, 30 folk enjoyed a joint Langley, WRSN, Delta Naturalists’ Club outing on the Salish Sea boat, cruising among the San Juan Islands. We all met at the Bellingham port for the 9:00 a.m. departure, then spent the next 8 hours at sea, returning at 5:oo p.m. It was a gorgeous sunny
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