Delta Naturalists Society

Category: BBRP

• Birds on the Bay Outing No. 2016-50 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  Photos by Brian Avent (BA), Chris McVittie (CMcV), Glen Bodie (GB), Terry Carr (TC), Jack MacDonald (JMacD), Nance Forster (NF), Roger Meyer (RM).  More photos at our DNCB Flickr site. With a beautiful, sunny morning and a panoramic view of the North Shore mountains and a chilly –6 degrees, sixteen hardy souls met in front

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  December 14, 2016

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Black-bellied Plover, Cammidge House, Centennial Beach, Dunlin, Eurasian Wigeon, Hooded Merganser, Mourning Dove, Northern Harrier, Purple Finch, Western Meadowlark

• BBRP Fall Nestbox Report Oct. 6, 2016

  Bird Nest Boxes in Boundary Bay Regional Park The Delta Naturalists Society maintains about 30 Bird Nest Boxes in Boundary Bay Regional Park.  These are primarily for Tree Swallows.  There is also one Barn Owl box in a remote area of the park. Twice a year, we monitor the boxes.  In the Fall we open

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  October 6, 2016

  *DNCB, *DNS, BBRP, Nestbox

• DNCB Birds on the Bay Outing No. 2016-37 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  Under gorgeous sunshine this morning, we had more than 30 participants in our quarterly Birds on the Bay (BOTB) outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP).  Check out photos (soon I hope) on our new DNCB Flickr site.  Also see this report and earlier reports and Delta Nats info on our website. At 9:00 am,

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  September 14, 2016

  *DNCB, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Boundary Bay, Centennial Beach, Greater White-fronted Goose, Merlin, Northern Harrier, Orange-crowned Warbler, Peregrine Falcon

• DNCB Birds-on-the-Bay Outing No. 2016-23 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  About 25 participants, including lots of Newbies, enjoyed our quarterly Birds on the Bay (BOTB) outing this morning in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP).  There are not a plethora of birds in BBRP in June, it being nesting time and wintering Shorebirds and Waterfowl have gone to their northern, inland or Arctic nesting grounds, but

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  June 8, 2016

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Black Swift, Cammidge House, Centennial Beach, Long-billed Dowitcher, Northern Harrier

• DNCB Birds on the Bay Outing No. 2016-10 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  more photos by Jim (JK), Glen (GB), Pat (PS) on the DNCB Picasa site. Almost 30 folk (see 29 names at end) enjoyed a dry but windy quarterly Birds on the Bay outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP) yesterday (Wednesday).  Not a lot of birds seen, but a few neat species, and a super

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  March 9, 2016

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Black Oystercatcher, Cammidge House, Centennial Beach, Eurasian Teal, Northern Harrier, Red-breasted Merganser, Western Gull

• Bird Nest Box Report- BBRP & Earthwise

  This morning (March 3) seven Delta Nats cleaned and closed all our Bird Nest Boxes at Boundary Bay Regional Park, plus the box behind Geof & Jean Hackers home.  It was overcast and spit rain occasionally, but we split into three groups and the task was done in less than an hour.  Terry and Mike

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  March 3, 2016

  *DNCB, BBRP, Centennial Beach

• Delta Naturalists Bird Box Summary – November 2015

  The original of this Bird Box Summary can be Downloaded (MS Word document, 6 pages) Report by Jack MacDonald Photos by Terry Carr, Jack MacDonald, Pete Blair, Peter Ward, and Geoffrey Hacker. Overview The Barn Owl box at Boundary Bay Regional Park was examined on October 5, and found to contain a successful nest.  In

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  October 15, 2015

  *DNCB, *DNS, Barn Owl Box, BBRP, Nestbox

• DNCB “Birds on the Bay” Outing No. 2015-36 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  Photos by Tony (TM), Terry (TC), Marion (MS), Jim (JK), Glen (GB) & Pascale & Alberto (P&A) more photos at DNCB Picasa site Almost 40 folk (Wow!) from all over the BC Lower Mainland participated in our Delta Naturalists’ quarterly “Birds on the Bay (BOTB)” outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP) on Wednesday (this

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  September 9, 2015

  *DNCB, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Centennial Beach, Least Sandpiper, Merlin, Northern Harrier

• DNCB Birds on the Bay Outing No. 2015-23 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  Photos by Glen (GB), Ken (KB), Jim (JK), Terry (TC), Pascale & Alberto (P&A) at DNCB Picasa site About 33 folk enjoyed a glorious Wednesday morning on our quarterly DNCB “Birds on the Bay” outing at Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP).  Although bird sightings were at a premium, there were some pretty flower sightings, beautiful

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  June 10, 2015

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Cammidge House, Centennial Beach

• DNCB Outing No. 2015-10 “Birds on the Bay” Event in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  Photos by Terry (TC), Glen (GB), Liz (LS), Ken (KB) and Pascale & Alberto (P&A) on DNCB Picasa site About 30 “casual” birders (see names at end) spent a very enjoyable 2 1/2 hour ramble around Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP) on an overcast but dry and comfortable Wednesday morning.  This was our Delta Nats

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  March 11, 2015

  Bald Eagle, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Centennial Beach, Eurasian Wigeon, Northern Harrier, Northern Shrike