Category: American Pipit
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DNCB Outing No. 2015- 39 to Elgin Park and Blackie Spit
Starting at about 8:00 on another great Wednesday morning, twenty seven enthusiastic members of the Flighty Flock assembled at the Historic Stewart Farm for an outing through Elgin Park and later around Blackie Spit. The land along the Nicomekl River was pre-empted by John Hardy in the 1880s and then settled by John Stewart who
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DNCB Outing No. 2015-37 to Boundary Bay and Reifel Bird Sanctuary
About 25 folk participated in various aspects of Wednesday’s “erratic” DNCB outing to Boundary Bay at 104th and 96th Streets, then Reifel Bird Sanctuary. This was the alternate destination as our Mt. Baker outing (poor weather) was postponed to next Wednesday, Sept. 23. There is some super photo evidence on our DNCB Picasa site. Seven
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DNCB Outing No. 2014-50 Birds on the Bay
See full set of photos by Terry Carr (TC), Liz Stewart (LS) & Glen Bodie (GB) on our DNCB Picasa site More pictures from the above photographers will be added to the Report below, soon! DNCBers: I’m Baaaaack! On a typical mild but overcast Winter Wednesday morning in Delta, about 20 DNCBers enjoyed our quarterly
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DNCB Outing No. 2014-40 to Iona Regional Park
Photos by Terry Carr (TC), Jonathan Mwenifumbo (JM), Glen Bodie (GB), Marion Shikaze (MS), Liz Stewart (LS), Roger Meyer (RM) Nineteen DNCBers spent a lovely Fall Wednesday morning of birding at Iona Regional Park. Lots of hi-lites, and some beaut photos by Liz, Marion, Glen, Terry and others expected on our DNCB Picasa site. Rush
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DNCB Outing No. 2014-38 to 104th St. on BBRP Trail
Our outing to 104th St. on the BBRP dike trail was very abbreviated as it rained very heavily. Surprisingly, we started with 12 folk, Ken B, WR Al & Pauline, newbies Liz Walker and her son, Mike B, Marylile & Rob, Otto and me. The Wimps left after our target bird, the Ash-throated Flycatcher, refused
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DNCB Birds on the Bay Outing No. 2014-36 in Boundary Bay Regional Park
We had another gorgeous Wednesday morning as almost 30 folk (actually 26), including several Newbies, left Cammidge House (CH) at 9:00 a.m. on our quarterly Birds on the Bay (BOTB) outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park. Lots of hi-lites including a Wilson’s Snipe, some Warblers and Shorebirds with the climax a delectable array of goodies
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DNCB Outing No. 2014-35 to Mt. Baker in Washington, USA
Ten DNCBers had another stellar “away” outing to Mt. Baker Park in Washington on Wednesday. Lots of hi-lites and you can see the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site. We met at and left from the Peace Arch Park parking lot (behind the Duty-Free Shop) at 7:30 a.m. in three vehicles; excellent car-pooling. It
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DNCB Outing No. 2013-43 to White Rock and Blackie Spit
Seventeen DNCBers (Roger, Mike, PB Lorna, Hans, Sheila, returnee Dave M, “lost” Marian, Marion & Marti, Anne A w/o golfer Ken, Donna, Gareth, South Slurry Al & Pauline, local Leona, “mechanically-disinclined” Jean and me) enjoyed a gorgeous, sunny and mild Monday morning at White Rock beach and pier, then Blackie Spit Park. Hi-lites included: the
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DNCB Outing No. 2013-41 to Boundary Bay Dike at 104th Street
Photos by Roger, Tony & Jonathan Seventeen DNCBers enjoyed a gorgeous Thanksgiving Monday morning walking the dike path around Boundary Bay from 104th Street to the Mansion and back. Hi-lites included American Pipits, Pectoral Sandpipers, both Kinglets, and thousands of ducks. Check out Roger’s, Tony’s and Jonathan’s photos (soon) on our Blog at https://picasaweb.google.com/DNCBirding. Three
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2010-20 DNCB Outing No. 89: Birthday walk at Brunswick Point
Casual Birding outing #89 Hans, Lorna, Val and rookie Linda Halls joined me on Monday morning on an outing along the dike at Brunswick Point. It was chilly, a bit overcast and the tide was out further than we would have liked. Reports of 100,000+ shorebirds at Brunswick was our destination, and lots of them
