Category: Band-tailed Pigeon
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DNCB Outing No. 2019-23 to Colony Farm Regional Park
Note: Delta Nat Roger Meyer wrote most of this superb report! With a partially overcast day and rain showers predicted the undaunted DNCB birders set out in three vehicles from Petras and arrived at Colony Farm Regional Park (CFRP) far before the 8:30 meeting time. There we met up with the rest of the group
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DNCB Outing No. 2018-25 to Pitt Lake
Check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site With a very hot day predicted six members met at Petra’s (Mike and Hannah, his cousin’s daughter from Wales, Terry, Angela, Lauris, Noreen and David, and reluctant blogger Roger) and headed out in two cars and, almost without incident, arrived at the Pitt Lake parking
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DNCB Outing No. 2018-23 to Colony Farm Regional Park
A big crowd (around 25, most listed below) joined me on another beautiful Wednesday morning at Colony Farm Regional Park (CFRP) in Coquitlam. We saw lots of neat species, up-close-and-personal, and you can see the spectacular photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site at: our DNCB Flickr site (just click on this). Ten of us
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-37 to White Rock Pier, Blackie Spit and Elgin Park
photos by Brian Avent (BA), Chris McVittie (CMcV), Glen Bodie (GB), Maureen Sinilaid (MS), Pat Smart (PS), Roger Meyer (RM) & Terry Carr (TC) at our DNCB Flickr site A large crowd of nearly 30 birders joined us at very stages of our Wednesday outing to White Rock Pier, Blackie Spit and then Elgin Park
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-24 to Maplewood Flats
More photos at our DNCB Flickr site Eighteen DNCBers spent a glorious Wednesday morning in Maplewood Flats Conservation Area in North Vancouver. Check out the photo evidence on our Flickr site at: www.flickr.com/groups/dncb, then click the magnifying glass icon in the “Photo Pool” row, and add 2017-24 to “DNCB Photos” in the Search box at
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-22 to Pitt Lake
Photos by Brian Avent (BA), Chris McVittie (CMcV), Glen Bodie (GB), Maureen Sinilaid, Pat Smart (PS) & Marty Allen (MA) More photos at our DNCB Flickr site Thirteen DNCBers enjoyed a beautiful morning walking the circuit at the spectacular Pitt Polder-Addington Marsh Park at Grant Narrows (aka Pitt Lake). We have visited this Park annually
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-33 to Cypress Mountain Park
Eleven DNCBers spent a glorious Wednesday morning walking the trails of Cypress Mountain Park. Along with the spectacular vistas and exhilarating mountain walk to Bowen Lookout, we also had a few neat sightings of flora and birds. Check out the photo evidence on our website. We are “working on” a new DNCB Flickr website to
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DNCB Outing Report No. 2016-25 to Maplewood Flats
Nineteen DNCBers (names at end of this report) enjoyed a beautiful weekly Wednesday walk on the renovated trails of Maplewood Flats Conservation Area in North Vancouver. We were accompanied and led by renowned Maplewood’s expert, Derek Killby, a Director of the WBT Wild Bird Trust of BC. Pictorial evidence of the outing, including some beautiful
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-24 to Pitt Lake
About 22 (I lost count; guesstimate participant list at end) DNCBers enjoyed some beautiful vistas and interesting sightings on our Wednesday morning walk in the Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area. Check out lots of photos on our DNCB Picasa site. Eight of us left Petra’s at 7:30 a.m., car-pooling nicely in two vehicles, and made
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-19 to Colony Farm
Photos below by Roger (RM), Terry (TC), Glen (GB), Jack (JMac), Marion (MS), Pat, David & Noreen (D&N) from our DNCB Picasa site. I have been too busy this week (BCN AGM in Comox Valley, etc.) to do a report on last Wednesday’s outing to Colony Farm. Check out the photos on our DNCB Picasa
