Category: Brunswick Point
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-40B to Brunswick Point on October 6, 2021
Despite a forecast of rain, our birding morning at Brunswick Point dawned fine. 14 participants turned up, more or less according to the sign-up list. Flocks of Snow Geese crowded the fields at the end of the road and more were seen in fields closer to the farm. After the walk, I contacted Sean Boyd,…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-40A to Brunswick Point on October 5, 2021
It started off as a wet morning but soon cleared up as the walk progressed. It was a very dull morning with a high blustery wind. Photography wasn’t easy. Nine people signed up for the Tuesday morning walk, and all showed up in spite of the bad forecast. The nine were: Mike B1, Lorna, Mike…
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DNCB Outing No. 2020-05 to Brunswick Point
Ten DNCBers braved the elements on Tuesday for an outing to Brunswick Point in Ladner, where we saw 26 species. Check out the photos on our DNCB Flickr site. We left Tsawwassen at 7:30 in light rain. And it was still only rain when we returned to Tsawwassen. However for our 2 hours at Brunswick…
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DNCB Outing No. 2019-42 to Brunswick Point
Nineteen DNCBers braved the windy and cool elements on what turned out to be a very pleasant and productive Tuesday morning outing along the dike trail at Brunswick Point. We saw lots of migrant waterfowl and shorebirds, and other good stuff; check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site. Some car-pooled from Petra’s…
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DNCB Outing No. 2019-05 to Brunswick Point
Twelve intrepid birders set out in -6 degree weather, which warmed up to -1 before we left the dike. We were Mike B1, Richmond Brian, Glen B, Lasqueti Marti, Marion S., Pat, better-late-than-never Margaretha, Gabriele, Bryan and Masae, Roger 1, Rose-come-briefly, Terry. (One of them found out he wasn’t as cold blooded as he thought,…
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-11 to Brunswick Point
It was another wet and rainy Tuesday morning with only six DNCBers braving the “normal” BC elements at Brunswick Point… We estimated 60,000 shorebirds (wish we could ID the different species) were feeding at Roberts Bank this morning, along with the thousands of ducks, mostly Green-winged Teal, Northern Pintail, American Wigeon and Mallards. About 20…
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-42 to Brunswick Point
See more photos at DNCB Flickr site At 7:00 AM this morning in Ladner there was monsoon rain and the prospects for birding looked pretty dim. However the Petra’s group of four, Mike, Val, Terry and Glen, felt that it looked good and off they went to the Point where they met a surprising number…
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-13 to Brunswick Point
About 17 DNCBers enjoyed a gorgeous Tuesday morning along the Brunswick Point (BP) Trail. Check out the beaut photos by Terry, Liz, Glen, Pat and Pascale on our DNCB Picasa site. Five of us left Petra’s at 8:00 a.m. (note new time next Wednesday is 7:30 a.m.) and stopped at the Tsatsu Heronry where the…
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DNCB Report No. 2015-42 to Brunswick Point
Photos by Glen (GB), Liz (LS), Pascale & Alberto (P&A), Jonathan (JM) & Tony (TM) Twenty-three DNCBers (names at the end of this report) spent another beautiful Delta morning walking the dike trail at Brunswick Point (BP). There were many thousands of birds using this Roberts Bank IBA (Important Bird Area) to feed on their…
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