Delta Naturalists Society

Category: *LOCATIONS*

• DNCB Outing 2013-11: TFN and Reifel Bird Sanctuary

  Twelve DNCB’ers {Lorna, Mike, Hans, Gerhard, Marion, Paul, Sue, Quinn, Ken, Anne, Bryan, and me (Janet)} met at Petra’s for a morning of brilliantly sunny and thoroughly wind-chilly birding.  In honour of our missing leaders, no one presumed to sit in “the head chair” which was reverently overturned and decorated (see photos on our DNCB

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  March 18, 2013

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Great Horned Owl, Peregrine Falcon, Reifel, TFN

• 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. 2013-9 to Drayton Bay, Blaine, Washington

  Fifteen DNCBer’s enjoyed a gorgeous, sunny Monday morning on an “away trip” to Blaine, Washington.  We were: Roger, Mike, PB Lorna, Sheila, Jane Z, Annie K & Eileen, Anne M, Ken & Anne A, Marion, White Rock Al, Deborah, Kay and Tom.  Hi-lites were many, some in breeding plumage; read on as I elaborate.  Check

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  March 4, 2013

  *DNCB, Blaine Marine Park, Drayton Harbor, Semiahmoo Spit

• 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 No. 2013-03: Burnaby Lake and Queen’s Park

  Six of us, Kay, Lorna, Sheila, Terry, Hans and myself (Roger), met at Petra’s on a cool and foggy morning and left to meet the others at the Burnaby Lake Nature House.  We were all happy to have Hans return to the fold after his back surgery.  “I’m back to normal said Hans”, and we

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  January 21, 2013

  *DNCB, Burnaby Lake, New Westminster, Northern Goshawk, Queen’s Park, Red-flanked Bluetail

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-2 to the “Brambling Bush” and Queen Elizabeth Park

  Twenty DNCBer’s (Wow, big group – Roger & Sheila, Marion & Marti and newbie Charlie, Bryan & Janet, Susan & Gerhard, Mike & Lorna, Paul & Quinn, Terry & Kay, Eileen & Annie K, Donna, and me; I missed one) battled the cold and snow this morning in downtown Vancouver to see the rare Brambling

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  January 14, 2013

  *DNCB, *Vancouver, Brambling, Queen Elizabeth Park, Red-tailed Hawk

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-1 to Surrey Lake Park and Serpentine Wildlife Area

  Thirteen DNCBer’s (Guides Ken & Anne with daughter Christie, Lorna, Kay, Anne M, Paul & Quinn, Donna, Surrey’s Gareth, Jonathan & Lorraine and me) spent a very wet Monday morning at Surrey Lake Park, then at Serpentine Wildlife Area.  Check out Ken’s photos on our Picasa site at http://picasaweb.google.com/dncbirding. Four of us (Anne, Lorna, Kay

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  January 7, 2013

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Barn Owl, Muskrat, Northern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, Serpentine Fen, Surrey Lake