Category: Caspian Tern
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway & Reifel, October 8, 2025
PHOTO: Black-capped Chickadee by Susan Gemeinhardt… Although Wednesday started out cloudy, by the end of the morning it was sunny and quite pleasant. Noreen and I started our morning at the Causeway and were pleased to have virtually no wind and a near high tide so the birds were easy to spot. A Belted Kingfisher
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Blackie Spit, October 1, 2025
PHOTO: Great Blue Heron by Bruce Taylor…. Four of us met in the parking lot of Blackie Spit. We were Bruce, Nicki, Stephanie and Bee. We started out toward the spit with a scope in tow. It got increasingly blowy as we scanned through huge rafts of ducks along one of the low tide sand
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Blackie Spit, September 30, 2025
PHOTO: Steller’s Jay with Acorn, by Susan Gemeinhardt…. Five Delta Naturalists met (casually, of course) in the Blackie Spit parking lot on a beautiful morning: Bob, Dottie, Connie, Colin and Susan. Given that there had been heavy rain the day before and more was predicted in the evening, we felt lucky to feel the sun
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Brunswick Point, October 9, 2024
PHOTO: Palm Warbler by David Hoar……. In the gap between the rains a group of 9 DNCBers met at Brunswick Point. We were: Liz, Margaretha, David, Christine, Noreen, Colin, Alexandra, Stephanie and Glen. We immediately felt over-whelmed by the flock of X thousand Snow Geese in the field across the road. All morning some of
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Centennial Beach, September 25, 2024
Photo: Boundary Bay at Low Tide by Glen Bodie…. Only Glen and I decided to go on this morning’s rain-soaked walk. We experienced light but steady drizzle during the first part of the morning; by the time we were on our return route, it was a solid downpour. Despite the poor conditions, we set off
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway and Reifel, September 11, 2024
PHOTO: Red-necked Phalarope by Glen Bodie…. It was a very grey and damp morning, which is why only newbie Bryce, Chris and I showed up at the Tsawwassen jetty. The mudflats at the landward end were exposed and there were enormous flocks of duck there, but there is nowhere convenient to stop. We met at
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Point Roberts, September 4, 2024
PHOTO:Cooper’s Hawk by Freddie Whiting…. Eleven Delta Naturalist Casual Birders spent a pleasant sunny morning birding coastal locations at Point Roberts. A few of us – Roger, newbies Claude and Freddie, and Anne – stopped by Kiniski’s first. This stretch of beach presaged the morning’s overall bird abundance – fairly few birds scattered over a
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DNCB Outing No. 2023-38B to Centennial Beach, September 20, 2023
10 of us gathered this morning at Boundary Bay Regional Park: park regulars David and Noreen, Colin, Chris, Lee, Lidia, Stephanie, Warren, Pat, and me (Anne). The weather was a little cool and grey, but with sunny spells between the clouds. We decided to go around the park “widdishins” – along the back trails northward
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DNCB Outing No. 2023-36B to Blackie Spit, September 6, 2023
Eight Casual Birders met at Blackie Spit carpark: regulars, Brian and Louise, Johnnie Mac, Colin and Stephanie, Marion, me, and newbie Christine. The weather didn’t look too promising – grey with a threat of rain – but we set off along the spit looking for pipits and other interesting fall migrants. We blanked on the
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DNCB Outing No. 2023-35A to Sidney Spit, August 30, 2023
Eight birders had a very enjoyable trip to Sidney Spit. The weather was perfect after the stormy weather of the previous day. Brian A, Lidia, Margaret, Lorna and Terry took the 7am Victoria ferry. From the windows on the walkway to the departure lounge we saw some cute gull chicks. At the Tsawwassen terminal were
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