Delta Naturalists Society

12 people signed up for our outing to Surrey Bend on Tuesday August 3 – and no one signed up for Wednesday. The 12 were Chris, Jim, Pat, Janet, Marion, Lidia, David, Noreen, Kirsten, Gabriele, Margaretha and Glen. We contemplated forming 2 groups of 6, but in the end we mixed it all up as one
group.

Kirsten’s suggestion of walking the route in reverse order was widely accepted as it got us through the long hot dry part of the route before the sun beat down too heavily. That left the mosquito territory till the end, and we probably went through that quite quickly doing more chatting than birding.

It was a warm sunny day for us and for the birds -we could see many of them flitting around in the tree tops but not giving us very good looks. There seemed to be a Willow Flycatcher every 30 meters, though we only managed to see one or two.

Even the Fraser River had nothing to offer – no herons, no gulls, no cormorants or ducks! We did a lot of birding by ear, and we hope the photogs managed to catch some of the variety. There was great excitement when we came upon a snake on the road, or a grasshopper, or a vulture some quarter mile off in the sky.

David kept an eBird list and the results are shown below.
Glen Bodie

Photos are on flickr

eBird list from David: 31 species
Canada Goose 1 Heard only
Mourning Dove 1
Anna’s Hummingbird 4
Turkey Vulture 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 2
Western Wood-Pewee 2 Heard x2
Willow Flycatcher 11
Red-eyed Vireo 1
American Crow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 9
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 1 Heard
Bushtit 5
Brown Creeper 2 Heardx2
Pacific Wren 1 Heard
Bewick’s Wren 2
European Starling 4
Swainson’s Thrush 2
American Robin 7
Cedar Waxwing 2
House Finch 1
Purple Finch 1
Pine Siskin 8
American Goldfinch 6
White-crowned Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 5
Spotted Towhee 1
Yellow Warbler 3 Heard
Wilson’s Warbler 1 Heard
Black-headed Grosbeak 2