Year: 2022
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-13A to Deas Island Regional Park, March 29, 2022
The day threatened fog and mixed clouds, but by mid morning it was sunny and warm enough that people were unzipping layers. The group of 12, then 13, then 14 started from the Bat House (Burr Villa) and inspected the river from the observation deck around the tower. We failed to find the very purple
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-12B to Centennial Beach, Boundary Bay Regional Park, March 23, 2022
It was a dry start for the group of 9 that gathered in the Centennial Beach parking lot. Brian & Louise, Noreen & David, Ontario Brian R, Margaret G and daughter Calipso, Margaretha, and Rayme. Warren joined us a bit later. With Bald Eagles overhead calling, we headed to the pond, where we found the
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-12A to Centennial Beach, Boundary Bay Regional Park, March 22, 2022
The fourteen DNCBers who met at Centennial Beach in Tsawwassen on a cold, wet morning, questioned their sanity. They were Roger M, Mike B1, Lorna, Glen, Jack, Jim, Jacquie, Lee, Dottie, Bob, Lindly, Joe, John, and Terry. But it was not supposed to rain until 11am! Several Bald Eagles were keeping watch from the trees.
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-11B to Terra Nova Regional Park, March 16, 2022
A lucky dozen turned up at Terra Nova in sunshine and with blue skies just before 08:00. These included Roger 2, Mike B2, Lidia, Gabriele, Margaretha, Marion, Terry, Jim K, Glen, Richard H., Noreen and I. Bryan DeB joined up with us later along Westminster Highway near the community gardens. We started off into the
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-11A to Terra Nova Regional Park, March 15, 2022
It had been “a dark and stormy night”, but the rain stopped by 8:00 AM when 11 enthusiastic birders gathered at the west parking lot of Terra Nova Park. This was the first outing since Daylight Saving Time, and there was a lot of grumbling about how it was really 7:00 AM. Participants were Roger,
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-10B to Brunswick Point, March 9, 2021
It was a cold, sunny morning for the Wednesday Brunswick Point outing. There were 16 of us – Lorna, Richard, Lidia, Brian, Louise, Gabriele, Margaretha, Glen, Janet, Marion, Warren, Lynne, Colin, Stephanie, Bryan and Terry. Just before the parking area there was an American Kestrel on a wire. By the time we got out of
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-10A to Brunswick Point, March 8, 2022
It was a cloudy morning, threatening rain, but eight of the sign-ups showed up in a timely fashion at the parking spot at the end of Brunswick Point. Roger was forgiven for being late as he had awesome pictures of an American Kestrel that he had spotted on “Superman’s House” – the film set location
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-09B to Blackie Spit, March 2, 2022
The sky was pregnant with the promise of rain (and actual rain) when seven brave, weather-defiant birders arrived at Blackie Spit – Brian, Louise, Jonathan, Lorraine, Margaret, Terry, and Thea. And right when I was doubting my decision to drive 40 minutes only to spend three hours in the rain, I spotted a flotilla of
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-9A to Blackie Spit, March 1, 2022
On Tuesday we went to Blackie Spit and got a special treat from Colin — a walking tour of the back streets of Crescent Beach. The group of 11 was Colin and Stephanie, Bob and Dottie, Johnny Mac, Lee, Mike B, Lorna, Roger, Pat and Glen. It started fairly dark and cloudy with quite a
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-8B to Burnaby Lake, February 23, 2022
It was a crisp, -3˚C, sunny, beautiful morning when we met up at 9am to start our walk. North Van’s Richard had been there awhile, and informed us that the Mandarin Duck and Eurasian Green-winged Teal were at Piper Spit as well as many other species. It was a swift visit for Richard as he
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