Delta Naturalists Society

Category: *Ladner/Tsawwassen

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-27 to Tsa Tsu Heronry, Tsawwassen Ferry Port, Alaksen and Reifel

  Photos by Terry, Jonathan, Marion, Glen, Roger & Ken will be added soon! I persuaded/conned my naturalist friend Justin Peter with Worldwide Quest Nature Tours to write the DNCB report for our “local” outing on Wednesday morning to the Heronry at Tsa Tsu Shores, the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, through the Tsawwassen First Nations territory and

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  July 10, 2013

  *DNCB, Alaksen NWA, Barn Owl, Black Oystercatcher, Harlequin Duck, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Northern Harrier, Reifel, TFN, TsaTsu Heronry, Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway

• DNCB Birds on the Bay Outing Report No. 2013-22 to Boundary Bay Regional Park

  Photos by Terry, Jonathan, Glen, Marion and Ken Click on any photo to see larger version. It was a gorgeous Wednesday morning as 21 participants left Cammidge House (CH) at 9:00 a.m. on the Delta Nats quarterly Birds on the Bay outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park.  Species hi-lites were slim, but the Marsh Wrens

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  June 5, 2013

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

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-21 to the North Forty Park

  Photos by Jonathan, Terry & Ken click on any photo to see larger version DNCB at North Forty monkey tree Fourteen (one more than our usual Lucky 13) DNCBers had a fun but overcast Wednesday morning at the North Forty Park behind Boundary Bay Airport.  We were: Roger, PB Lorna, Mike, Kay, Bryan & Janet,

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  May 29, 2013

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Great Horned Owl, North Forty/VWS, Red-tailed Hawk

• DNCB/Birds on the Bay Outing No. 2013-10 to Boundary Bay Regional Park

  Seventeen folk (Don & Rochelle, Ken & Anne, Jonathan & Lorraine, Paul and home-schooled Quinn, Roger & Anne M, Mike & Lorna, Leona & Sheila, Jackie & Jennifer and me) enjoyed a very comfortable quarterly Birds on the Bay outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP).  Hi-lites included: American Kestrel, Sanderlings, Common (Eurasian) Teal, Northern Shrike,

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  March 13, 2013

  *DNCB, *DNS, American Kestrel, Bald Eagle, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Boundary Bay, Centennial Beach, Eurasian Teal, Mountain Bluebird, Mourning Dove, Northern Harrier, Northern Shrike, Red-tailed Hawk, Short-eared Owl

• Barn Owl and Other Bird Boxes at BBRP

  Peter Ward, Ken Hall and I met with Markus Merkens of Metro Vancouver Parks this morning at our Nats storage locker (new shelving installed – thanks Lynden) at Centennial Beach.  Metro Vancouver was neither happy with our Barn Owl Box design nor our suggested installation near Cammidge House.  Markus has ordered a telephone pole and

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  March 12, 2013

  *DNCB, *DNS, Barn Owl Box, BBRP, Centennial Beach

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-7 to the North Forty and Kings Links Golf Course

  Eight hardy DNCBers (Roger, Sheila, Donna, Marion, Bryan & Janet, chauffeur Gerhard and me) braved the crappy weather this morning (Monday) on an outing to the North Forty “dog-walk” Park, Kings Links Golf Course and then the dike overlooking Boundary Bay at the end of 72nd Street.  Hi-lites included a Rough-legged Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Northern Shrike

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  February 18, 2013

  *DNCB, 72 Street, Bald Eagle, North Forty/VWS, Northern Harrier, Northern Shrike, Peregrine Falcon, Red-tailed Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Snowy Owl

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-6 Boundary Bay Lagoon-Beach Grove-Deas Island

  Only the hardiest of “Delta Force” turned out at Petra’s on a damp, bone-chilling Monday morning.  Lorna, Hans, Gerhard, Sheila, Eric, Donna, Brian and Janet, and myself (Roger) headed down to the lagoon at the foot of 12th Ave. and walked out to the viewing platform.  Along the way we sighted Northern Harriers, the usual

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  February 11, 2013

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Beach Grove, Boundary Bay, Deas Island Regional Park, Northern Harrier

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-5 Ferry Terminal to Alaksen

  Twelve DNCBer’s (Roger, Lorna, Susan, Mike, Gerhard, Eleanor, Sheila, Marion, Marti, Hans-Ulf, Donna and me) enjoyed a cool Monday morning of birding at the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, through the Ladner farm fields, and then at Alaksen National Wildlife Area (NWA).  Hi-lites were: several Yellow-rumped Warblers, Northern Shrikes, lots of Waterfowl in breeding plumage and other

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  February 4, 2013

  *DNCB, Alaksen NWA, Bald Eagle, DeltaPort Causeway, Peregrine Falcon, TFN, Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway, Westham Island

• DNCB Outing Report No. 2012-54 to 64th St. Dike and Reifel

  Six brave souls (Susan, Lorna, Marion, Marti, Ken and me) enjoyed a dry and surprisingly nice Monday morning of birding on the dike at 64th Street, then at Reifel Bird sanctuary.  Hi-lites were: some neat Warblers, Saw-whet and Snowy Owls and some beaut Waterfowl (e.g. Ruddy Ducks).  Check out Marion’s photos on our DNCB Picasa site

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  December 17, 2012

  *DNCB, 64 Street, Bald Eagle, Cooper’s Hawk, Gyrfalcon, Merlin, Northern Harrier, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Red-tailed Hawk, Reifel, Rough-legged Hawk, Snowy Owl

• DNCB “Birds on the Bay” Outing No. 2012-53 to BBRP

  On a mild and unusually almost sunny Wednesday morning, December 12, about 24 folk (wow!) participated in our quarterly DNCB Birds on the Bay outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park.  Hi-lites were: good looks at several duck and shorebird species, a posing Cooper’s Hawk, interesting ornithological explanations of Finches and Brant, birding with an eclectic group of weirdos, and the

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  December 12, 2012

  *DNCB, *DNS, Bald Eagle, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Cammidge House, Centennial Beach, Cooper’s Hawk, Northern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk