Category: Black-headed Grosbeak
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Joe Brown Park, June 10, 2025
PHOTO: Juvenile Barred Owl by Bob Winston….. A quartet of birders met at Joe Brown Park (Alan, Lee, Dottie and Bob) to see what June would provide at this hot spot. The day was very nice, warm and a light breeze. The Jim Arnold trail was getting overgrown thus hard to see the birds but…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Campbell Valley Regional Park, May 28, 2025
PHOTO: Black-headed Grosbeak by Terry Carr…. Ten Delta Nats met at Campbell Valley Regional Park in Langley – Margaret, Richard, Terry, Connie, Lynne, Warren, Freddie, Dorothy, Margaretha, Claude. The birds seemed to be few and far between on our shady forest walk. Merlin teased us with songs of birds that we could not see. We…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Campbell Valley Regional Park, August 7, 2024
PHOTO: Spotted Towhee (adult & juvenile) by Glen Bodie…. After a few late-the-night-before additions there were 5 birders at CampbellValley: Bill and Carolyn, Richard, Doug and Glen. We almost had the place toourselves. It was a little cool in the shade, but otherwise a hot day with noclouds. We started along the trail over the…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Deas Island Regional Park, July 24, 2024
PHOTO:Wood Ducks by Brian Avent……. On Wednesday morning at 8am a group of 10 started out at Deas Island. Well, a group of 8, and then 2 more came just a little bit late. We were Brian and Louise, Bill and Carolyn, Lee, Richard, David S, Doug B, Margaretha and Glen. We started near the…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Alaksen National Wildlife Area, July 17, 2024
PHOTO: Eight-spotted Skimmer by Terry Carr….. Fifteen Delta Nats met at Alaksen on our continuing heat wave. From the parking area we saw a Great Blue Heron on a piling in the slough and a family of Brown-headed Cowbirds in the trees. Barn Swallows were stopping in the mud in the slough on the other…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Jackman Wetlands, June 19, 2024
PHOTO: Yellow Warbler by Glen Bodie…. It only takes 2 to make a DNCB group outing – Susan G and Glen. We met at Jackman Wetlands on perhaps the first real warm and sunny summer day this year to see what we could see. Even though there were only 2 pairs of eyeballs at work…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Jackman Wetlands & Aldergrove Regional Park, June 18, 2024
PHOTO: Pied-billed Grebe by Christine Gaio…. Eleven Delta Nats met at Jackman Wetlands in Langley. Jackman Wetlands, a former landfill site, now has paths, ponds and an 18 hole disc golf course. Players use thick, heavy, Frisbee-like discs and aim for chain baskets as targets. Next door are large movie sets. As we started our…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Sturgeon Slough, June 12, 2024
PHOTO: Yellow-breasted Chat by Terry Carr…. 13 indomitable Casual Birders gathered at Rannie Road in the Pitt Valley at 8:50am for our walk to Sturgeon Slough. It was cloudy, but the rain held off. Rannie Road intersects with Ladner Road just south of here, so our local-area Ladner family must have had relatives that built…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Ladner Harbour Park, May 22, 2024
PHOTO: Wilson’s Warbler (f) by David Hoar….. 14 keen Casual Birders met up at Ladner Harbour Park on a rather cool, grey morning, determined to see newly arrived migrant birds. Participants today were Roger, Noreen and David, Lynne and Warren, Stephanie and Colin, Glen, Lidia, Lindly, Margaretha, Douglas and Christine McG, and me (Anne). The…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Campbell Valley Regional Park, May 15, 2024
PHOTO: Honeysuckle by Warren Fenton….. On Wednesday, May 15, two DNCBers headed east through the morning truck parade on 16th Ave in South Surrey to the peace and quiet of Campbell Valley Regional Park. It turned out that Lynne and I (Warren) were the only participants this morning – but that was fine, it was a…
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