Delta Naturalists Society

Year: 2016

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-24 to Pitt Lake

  About 22 (I lost count; guesstimate participant list at end) DNCBers enjoyed some beautiful vistas and interesting sightings on our Wednesday morning walk in the Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area.  Check out lots of photos on our DNCB Picasa site. Eight of us left Petra’s at 7:30 a.m., car-pooling nicely in two vehicles, and made

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  June 15, 2016

  *DNCB, Band-tailed Pigeon, Black Swift, Black Turnstone, Bullock’s Oriole, Cliff Swallow, Eastern Kingbird, Evening Grosbeak, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Osprey, Pied-billed Grebe, Pitt Lake, Pitt-Addington Marsh WMA, Spotted Sandpiper, Turkey Vulture, Vaux’s Swift, Western Wood-Pewee, Willow Flycatcher, Wilson’s Snipe, Wilson’s Warbler, Yellow Warbler

• DNCB Birds-on-the-Bay Outing No. 2016-23 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  About 25 participants, including lots of Newbies, enjoyed our quarterly Birds on the Bay (BOTB) outing this morning in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP).  There are not a plethora of birds in BBRP in June, it being nesting time and wintering Shorebirds and Waterfowl have gone to their northern, inland or Arctic nesting grounds, but

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  June 8, 2016

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Black Swift, Cammidge House, Centennial Beach, Long-billed Dowitcher, Northern Harrier

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-22 to Surrey Bend Regional Park

  At about 8:30 on another great Wednesday morning, twenty two DNC Birding Brigaders began assembling in the parking lot of Surrey Bend Regional Park, a new destination – although some in the group had explored a gravel access track, now called the Pacific Trail, two years ago after an outing to neighbouring Barnston Island.  The park,

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  June 1, 2016

  Bald Eagle, Northern Harrier, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Osprey, Spotted Sandpiper, Swainson’s Thrush, Western Wood-Pewee, Wilson’s Warbler, Yellow Warbler

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-21 to Burnaby Lake

  On a beautiful DNCB Wednesday, twenty-four of us met at the Nature House in Burnaby Lake Regional Park and had an awesome outing wandering the trails of the park.  Lots of neat sightings; check out the visual evidence by our photogs Uma (aka Denise), Brian A, Terry, David & Noreen, Marion S, Glen B, Pat,

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  May 25, 2016

  *DNCB, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Blue-winged Teal, Burnaby Lake, Cinnamon Teal, Douglas Squirrel, Long-billed Dowitcher, Orange-crowned Warbler, Pied-billed Grebe, Sandhill Crane, Spotted Sandpiper, Swainson’s Thrush, Warbling Vireo, Willow Flycatcher, Wilson’s Warbler

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-20 to Minnekhada Regional Park

  Seventeen DNCBers gathered at Minnekhada Regional Park in Coquitlam on Wednesday for a beautiful walk and climb in the woods.  Lots of interesting sightings including bears, baby birds; check out the photos and video evidence on our DNCB Picasa site. Eleven of us car-pooled nicely in three vehicles from Ladner and Petra’s at 7:30 a.m. 

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  May 18, 2016

  *DNCB, Black Bear, Minnekhada Park, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Pileated Woodpecker, Sandhill Crane, Shrew Mole, Wilson’s Warbler, Yellow Warbler

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-19 to Colony Farm

  Photos below by Roger (RM), Terry (TC), Glen (GB), Jack (JMac), Marion (MS), Pat, David & Noreen (D&N) from our DNCB Picasa site. I have been too busy this week (BCN AGM in Comox Valley, etc.) to do a report on last Wednesday’s outing to Colony Farm.  Check out the photos on our DNCB Picasa

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  May 11, 2016

  *DNCB, Band-tailed Pigeon, Colony Farm RP, Lazuli Bunting, Mink, Mourning Dove

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-18 to Pt. Whitehorn and Tennant Lake, Washington

  Photos by David, Terry, Glen, Jack, Brian on our DNCB Picasa site. Thirteen enthusiastic DNC Avianers gathered on a breezy and soppy morning at the Blaine Harbor parking lot for an outing to two separate destinations in Whatcom County.  At 8:30, the lucky number of participants, which oddly enough included only two ladies, squeezed into

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  May 4, 2016

  *DNCB, Great Horned Owl, Harlequin Duck, Muskrat, Pelagic Cormorant, Point Whitehorn Marine Reserve, Tennant Lake, Yellow Warbler

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-17 to Brydon Lagoon & Hi-Knoll Park

  Twenty-two DNCBers (see names at end) enjoyed another gorgeous Wednesday morning wandering around Brydon Lagoon and Hi-Knoll Park on the Langley-Surrey border.  It was meant to be a Wildflower outing, however, with the earlier Spring weather in BC and our outing being a bit later than last year’s, the Fawn Lilies and Trilliums had finished

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  April 27, 2016

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Barred Owl, Brydon Lagoon, Cooper’s Hawk, Hi-Knoll Park, Least Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitcher, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-tailed Hawk

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-16 to Several Ladner Parks

  Twenty-six DNCBers (names at end) enjoyed a record hot (28 degrees) Wednesday morning of birding in three Parks in Ladner.  Lots of neat sightings; check out photos by Brian BA), Liz(LS), Jim (JK), Terry (TC), Pat (PS) and more at our DNCB Picasa site. Nine of us car-pooled nicely from Petra’s in three vehicles at

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  April 20, 2016

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Dunlin, Great Horned Owl, Ladner Harbour Park, Ladner S.Arm Marsh, Long-billed Dowitcher, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Red-tailed Hawk, Yellow-rumped Warbler

• Delta’s Annual Fish Release & Nature Walk at Watershed Park

  On Sunday, April 17, your Delta Nats set up their “hands-on” Display at Watershed Park for the 14th annual Delta Corporation Fish Release.  It was a gorgeous day and hundreds of kids and adults enjoyed the event from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 

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  April 17, 2016

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Barred Owl, Fish Release, Swainson’s Thrush, Watershed Park