Category: Blackie Spit
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DNCB Outing No. 2012-2 to Elgin Park and Blackie Spit
Eleven birders (Ken & Anne, Bryan & Janet, Jonathan & Lorraine, Anne M, Lorna, White Rock Al, John Mac and me) enjoyed a chilly but fun Monday morning in South Surrey at Elgin Heritage Park and Blackie Spit. We saw a lot of neat species today including: Long-billed Curlew, Marbled Godwit, Long-billed Dowitchers and other
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DNCB Outing No. 2011-48 White Rock Pier/Blackie Spit/72nd
Even with a cold morning we had a large turnout at Petra’s. Without our leader, Tom (we had fun coming up with imaginative excuses he may have had for abandoning us…we won’t print Hans’s winner), we decided to drive directly to the White Rock pier hoping to see a variety of sea birds. Those taking
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DNCB Outing No. 2011-38 to Blackie Spit, 104th Street and the North Forty
Eleven birders (Lorna, Mike, Eleanor, Gerhard, Roger, Terry, Alan, Lorraine & Jonathan and Sam) joined me at Blackie Spit in South Surrey then on the dike between 104th and 88th Streets and then finishing the morning at the North Forty Park behind Boundary Bay Airport. It was a fine sunny morning, tide coming in, and
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DNCB Outing No. 2011-23 to Elgin Park and Blackie Spit
A Dirty Dozen of birders (Rick & Marg, Ken & Anne & newbie Christie, Eleanor, Lorna, Mike B, Anne M, Marian, Donna and me) spent a beautiful Wednesday morning at historic Stewart Farm and Elgin Park, and then at Blackie Spit Park in South Surrey. Hi-lites were several Willow Flycatchers, Purple Martins, and lots of
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DNCB Outing No. 2011-11 to White Rock, Blackie Spit and Elgin Heritage Park
Nine intrepid (aka weirdos) enjoyed a miserable Monday morning of birding at White Rock pier, Blackie Spit and Elgin Heritage Park. We were Bill & Mary, Roger & Mike, Rick & Marg, Lorna, Hans and me (few enough for me to remember their names). Hi-lites of the morning were: two Scoter species and a Harlequin
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DNCB Outing #2011-5 to Blackie Spit and Serpentine Fen
Ten birders (Roger & Mike, Lorna, Terry, Bill & Mary, Ansa, Marian, Annie K and me) spent a relatively productive Monday morning at Blackie Spit (Crescent Beach in South Surrey) and a not-so-productive morning at Serpentine Fen. It was cold early, but warmed up nicely. Did anyone else see the brilliant orange/red sunrise this morning
