Category: Coyote
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Iona Beach Regional Park, February 26, 2025
PHOTO: Greater White-fronted Geese by Brian Avent….. On one of the first nice sunny Wednesday mornings in a long time, 13 birders met at the Iona Beach Regional Park parking lot: Al and Liz, Brian and Louise, Pat, Lorna, Anne, Grace, Henry, Naoko, Dorothy, Terry and Glen. The Red-winged Blackbirds were everywhere as usual, and
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Point Roberts, January 21, 2025
PHOTO: Pigeon Guillemots by Terry Carr……. Twelve DNCBers met at Lighthouse Park in Point Roberts – Jim, Mike, Jacquie, Terry, Lidia, Christine, Paul, Dottie, Bob, Susan, and Connie. A few of us stopped first to check the shore at Kiniski’s. On the pilings were the usual Double-crested Cormorants. In the water were Canada Geese, Horned
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Terra Nova & Garden City Lands, November 19, 2024
PHOTO: Glossy/White-faced Ibis by Christine Gaio….. Nine DNCBers met at Richmond’s Terra Nova Park on a very cold, but dry, morning. There was fresh snow on the north shore mountains. In the river were Wigeon, Gulls and Cormorants. A Heron and a Harrier flew over. We heard, but did not see, a Bald Eagle. It
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Point Roberts, October 29, 2024
PHOTO: American Kestrels by Christine Gaio….. Ten DNCBers stopped at Kiniski’s where the pilings had the usual large gathering of Double-crested and Pelagic Cormorants. There were more Cormorants on the water and flying by. Also on the water were Horned Grebes, Surf Scoters, Red-breasted Mergansers, Common Loons and a Pacific Loon with its thinner beak
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Boundary Bay at 104th, October 23, 2024
PHOTO: Dunlin & Coyote by Glen Bodie….. It promised to be a grey and cool – or maybe even cold – morning on the dike when these 13 birders met up at 104th Ave: Lynne and Warren, Grace, Henry, Naoko, Brian (w/o Louise), Stephanie (w/o Colin), David S, Connie, TK, Lucia, Margaretha and Glen. The
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Boundary Bay at 104th, October 22, 2024
PHOTO: Dunlin & Black-bellied Plover by Terry Carr…… 18 DNCBers met on Boundary Bay dyke at 104th. It was cold and windy but the wind was keeping the rain clouds away. The tide was far out so the ducks and shorebirds were far out on the tide line. There were huge flocks of Snow Geese
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Terra Nova Park, August 21, 2024
PHOTO: Northern Harrier by Brian Avent…. 10 Delta Naturalists met at Richmond’s Terra Nova Park for a morning of eye, ear and binocular exercise. Shortly after we started we were serenaded by distant sirens and not so distant Coyotes, and quite a song they had. The Heron, Mallard and Pied-Billed Grebe in the pond were
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Delta Naturalists Outing to North 40 Park Reserve, April 9, 2024
PHOTO: Rufous Hummingbird by Terry Carr….. Twelve Delta Nats met at the North 40 Park Reserve in East Ladner on a gorgeous spring morning. This was the site of the Vancouver Wireless Station until 1971. The buildings in the residential community were moved away, leaving the foundations and streets as remnants. Although it is a
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DNCB Outing No. 2023-12B to Terra Nova, March 22, 2023
Seven birders met at Terra Nova Park in Richmond on a perfect bluebird morning with the sun rising behind the watching eagles. Present were Anne, Gabriele, Lindly, Margaretha, Marion, Brian & Louise. The foreshore marsh had a modest population of American Wigeon, American Green-winged Teal with a few Mallards in the mix. An American x
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DNCB Outing No. 2023-07B to Serpentine Fen, February 15, 2023
With high-level clouds above the eastern horizon catching fire with the rising sun, it was hard not to feel like a bear emerging from hibernation after a long, gloomy winter. 14 Birders met in the King George parking lot at Serpentine Fen: Thea (yours truly), Brian & Louise, Colin & Stephanie, David & Noreen, Glen,
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