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DNCB Outing 2013-11: TFN and Reifel Bird Sanctuary
Twelve DNCB’ers {Lorna, Mike, Hans, Gerhard, Marion, Paul, Sue, Quinn, Ken, Anne, Bryan, and me (Janet)} met at Petra’s for a morning of brilliantly sunny and thoroughly wind-chilly birding. In honour of our missing leaders, no one presumed to sit in “the head chair” which was reverently overturned and decorated (see photos on our DNCB
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DNCB/Birds on the Bay Outing No. 2013-10 to Boundary Bay Regional Park
Seventeen folk (Don & Rochelle, Ken & Anne, Jonathan & Lorraine, Paul and home-schooled Quinn, Roger & Anne M, Mike & Lorna, Leona & Sheila, Jackie & Jennifer and me) enjoyed a very comfortable quarterly Birds on the Bay outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP). Hi-lites included: American Kestrel, Sanderlings, Common (Eurasian) Teal, Northern Shrike,
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DNCB Outing No. 2013-9 to Drayton Bay, Blaine, Washington
Fifteen DNCBer’s enjoyed a gorgeous, sunny Monday morning on an “away trip” to Blaine, Washington. We were: Roger, Mike, PB Lorna, Sheila, Jane Z, Annie K & Eileen, Anne M, Ken & Anne A, Marion, White Rock Al, Deborah, Kay and Tom. Hi-lites were many, some in breeding plumage; read on as I elaborate. Check
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DNCB Outing No. 2013-8 to replace Nestboxes at BBRP
Check out Donna’s records: BBRP Nestbox Chart 2013 BBRP Nestbox Chart 2012_2013 (these are also available under “Publications”, right column) Next Monday, March 4: DNCB trip to Blaine. Some will meet at Petra’s, leaving at 8:00 a.m. Some will meet in the Peace Arch Park parking lot behind the Duty-Free shop at the border to
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DNCB Outing No. 2013-7 to the North Forty and Kings Links Golf Course
Eight hardy DNCBers (Roger, Sheila, Donna, Marion, Bryan & Janet, chauffeur Gerhard and me) braved the crappy weather this morning (Monday) on an outing to the North Forty “dog-walk” Park, Kings Links Golf Course and then the dike overlooking Boundary Bay at the end of 72nd Street. Hi-lites included a Rough-legged Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Northern Shrike
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DNCB Outing No. 2013-6 Boundary Bay Lagoon-Beach Grove-Deas Island
Only the hardiest of “Delta Force” turned out at Petra’s on a damp, bone-chilling Monday morning. Lorna, Hans, Gerhard, Sheila, Eric, Donna, Brian and Janet, and myself (Roger) headed down to the lagoon at the foot of 12th Ave. and walked out to the viewing platform. Along the way we sighted Northern Harriers, the usual
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DNCB Outing No. 2013-5 Ferry Terminal to Alaksen
Twelve DNCBer’s (Roger, Lorna, Susan, Mike, Gerhard, Eleanor, Sheila, Marion, Marti, Hans-Ulf, Donna and me) enjoyed a cool Monday morning of birding at the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, through the Ladner farm fields, and then at Alaksen National Wildlife Area (NWA). Hi-lites were: several Yellow-rumped Warblers, Northern Shrikes, lots of Waterfowl in breeding plumage and other
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DNCB Outing No. 2013-4 to Terra Nova Park in Richmond
Ten DNCBer’s (Lorna, Sheila, Marion, Bryan & Janet, Jonathan, Mike, Donna, me and Gerhard) started on our Monday morning outing to Terra Nova Park in Richmond. My “Bird of the Day” was a Townsend’s Solitaire, while Gerhard’s dessert following Lorna’s PB and Banana Sandwich was also a hit. Check out Marion and Jonathan’s photos on our
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DNCB Outing No. 2013-03: Burnaby Lake and Queen’s Park
Six of us, Kay, Lorna, Sheila, Terry, Hans and myself (Roger), met at Petra’s on a cool and foggy morning and left to meet the others at the Burnaby Lake Nature House. We were all happy to have Hans return to the fold after his back surgery. “I’m back to normal said Hans”, and we
