Category: *DNCB
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Elgin Park and Blackie Spit ~ Casual Birding #80
Seven participants (Hans-Ulf, Lorna, Gord & Roberta, Roger, Terry and me) spent a pleasant post-Olympic Monday morning of birding at Elgin Park and Blackie Spit in South Surrey. We drove the main highways (17 and 99) to get there, and did happen to see a couple of Red-tailed Hawks and the Rough-legged Hawk along Highway
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On the dyke in east Delta ~ Casual Birding #79
On Monday, the 7th and last day of our gorgeous Summer, eight participants (Lorna, Hans-Ulf, Roger, Jim, Anne, John & Kay and me) enjoyed the morning along the dyke at 112th Street. We drove the back roads to get to 112th and spotted a Peregrine Falcon on a tower near 72nd. Over 50 Bald Eagles
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Reifel Bird Sanctuary ~ Casual Birding #78
Seven participants (John & Kay, Hans-Ulf and his Calgarian brother-in-law Derek, Lorna, Terry and me) spent a very interesting morning at Reifel Bird Sanctuary. On our way to Reifel, we stopped at the Tsawwassen First Nations’ “Kingfisher Bridge” and he was in the same tree on the same branch as on previous outings. Many Bald
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Birds on the Bay outing ~ Feb 10
About 30 participants enjoyed a mild, dry outing around Boundary Bay Park on Wednesday, February 10 (yesterday) on the Delta Nature’s 2nd Winter “Birds on the Bay” event. The tide was in, but there was a bit of shoreline exposed, so the shorebirds, geese and ducks could be seen up-close-and-personal and were in nice breeding
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2010-07 Reifel Bird Sanctuary ~ Casual Birding #76
Jim, Hans-Ulf, Lorna and I spent a lovely Monday morning at Reifel Bird Sanctuary. This was an “unscheduled” outing as we have our Birds on the Bay event this Wednesday. Reifel is always a good outing but in February it is especially good as all the winter residents are in beautiful breeding plumage, and very
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Brunswick Point ~ Casual Birding #75
Ten birders enjoyed a dry and mild morning outing to Brunswick Point and then to 112th Street and Highway #10. We learned from Kay at Petra’s that she saw and photographed a Long-eared Owl at Brunswick Point on both Saturday and Sunday. So we drove (3 cars with Don & Rochelle, Terry, John & Kay,
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Casual birding outing #73 Alaksen
Belted Kingfisher at Kingfisher Bridge Nine birders (Val, Don & Rochelle, John & Kay, Hans-Ulf, Roger, Terry) joined me on Monday morning on an outing via the Tsawwassen First Nations Reserve and South Ladner farmers’ fields to Alaksen NWA. It was an off-and-on rainy morning but relatively mild. Our first stop was the “Kingfisher Bridge”
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Casual Birders go to Campbell Valley Park ~ outing#72
Seven of us (Rochelle, Val, John & Kay, Terry, Roger and me) went to Campbell Valley Park in Surrey this morning in search of the Great Gray Owl that Roger had seen yesterday. It was overcast and rainy when we left Petra’s at 9:00 a.m., but it turned out to be a gorgeous sunny and warm
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First winter Birds on the Bay outing
A dozen brave souls, including several rookies, joined me this morning in the rain on Delta Nats first Winter “Birds on the Bay” Casual Birding outing at Boundary Bay Park in Tsawwassen. At the park entrance at the foot of 12th Avenue, we watched the Canada Geese, Great Blue Herons and dabbling ducks (e.g. Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Mallards, etc) foraging.
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Casual Birding#71 Boundary Bay dyke
Six of us saw more birds than you can imagine this morning on Boundary Bay along the dyke between 88th and 104th Streets. Anne, with daughter Cat(herine) and future son-in-law Chris visiting from NYC, Hans-Ulf and scope-porter Ron Dennett joined me. We drove the back roads to 88th and saw lots of Bald Eagles (they’re back;
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