Category: *LOCATIONS*
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway & Reifel, September 10, 2024
PHOTO: Long-billed Dowitchers by Terry Carr…. Six Delta Nats met on the ferry causeway – Joe, Jonathan & Lorraine, Debbi, Lorna and Terry. On the water were Horned Grebes, Common Loons, Scaup, Surf and White-winged Scoters, Northern Pintail, and Gulls. On the shore were a group of Black Oystercatchers. On the far spit were Killdeer
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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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Delta Naturalists Outing to Point Roberts, September 3, 2024
PHOTO: Common Loon by Terry Carr…. 9 Delta Nats crossed the border to meet at Lighthouse Marine Park in Point Roberts. Newbies, Srikar and Chandani, had taken public transit to Tsawwassen from Vancouver’s West End. Everyone was suitably impressed by how early they had started out that morning. Some of us had stopped first at
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Blackie Spit, August 28, 2024
PHOTO:Horned Lark by Glen Bodie….. A select group of 5 Casual Birders met at Blackie Spit this morning: Glen, Liz, Alan, Margaretha, and Anne. The sky was grey, and it looked like it might rain. Not letting that deter us, we headed off down the spit trail in search of birds. Some gulls drifted overhead
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Blackie Spit & Elgin Park, August 27, 2024
PHOTO: Greater Yellowlegs by Terry Carr….. Seven Delta Nats met at Blackie Spit on a lovely morning. The tide was out, so instead of going onto the spit, we started out on the usual trails. Barn and Tree Swallows and Purple Martins were doing aerial displays, and Canada Geese and Mallards flew over. We watched
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Aldergrove Regional Park, August 14, 2024
PHOTO: American Bittern by Terry Carr…. 7 Delta Nats met at the 8th Avenue entrance to Aldergrove Regional Park – Dottie, Bob, Jacquie, Richard, Alan, Mike and Terry. This huge 280 hectare Metro Vancouver Park used to be the site of man-made Aldergrove Lake which was a popular local swimming hole. Metro Vancouver had grandfathered
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Surrey Bend Regional Park, July 31, 2024
PHOTO: Swainson’s Thrush by Glen Bodie….. On a rather muggy overcast morning, the group of 7 met at Surrey Bend: Liz and Alan, Bill and Carolyn with son Dan, Susan G and Glen. If you haven’t been to Surrey Bend in a few years you’ll be surprised at how over-grown everything is, especially at this
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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 Alaksen National Wildlife Area, July 16, 2024
PHOTO: Juvenile Barn Swallows by Christine Gaio….. Six DNCBers assembled at the Alaksen parking lot on a beautiful Tuesday morning — Lidia, Margaret, Bob, Dottie, David S. and Christine — where Margaret bravely took on the e-bird listing duty, to everyone else’s relief. From the lot we strolled through the cedars looking for owls (none
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