Category: Mountain Bluebird
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Centennial Beach, November 12, 2025
PHOTO: Northern Pintail by Brian Avent….. We started out from the parking lot at Centennial Beach at 9am sharp. We were Bruce, Nicki, Brian, Louise, Chris, Doug, Erin, Lynne, Susan and Warren. It was overcast and although the forecast suggested we might see a shower, we never did. Our first stop was at the pond

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Delta Naturalists Outing to Centennial Beach, November 11, 2025
PHOTO: Mountain Bluebird by Bob Winston….. It was a clear, crisp Remembrance Day morning as the Delta Naturalists Casual Birders began to gather in the Centennial Beach parking lot in Tsawwassen under the watchful eye of a Bald Eagle. There were two topics of conversation — the absence of traffic, and the cold wind off

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DNCB Outing No. 2022-50A to Brunswick Point & Boundary Bay Dyke at 72 St, December 13, 2022
Ten DNCBers met at Brunswick Point on a cool, calm morning – Grant, Lee, John, Jim, Roger, Mike, Bryan D, Margareta, Lori and Terry. In the fields at the side of the road were Dunlin, Black-bellied Plovers, Mallards, White-crowned and Golden-crowned Sparrows. Lee saw a Tree Sparrow, but it disappeared before the rest of us
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-49C to Boundary Bay Dyke at 72nd, December 8, 2022
Thursday December 8, a tiny contingent of six Delta Naturalists (Dirk, Syd, Margaretha, Liz W, Roger, and myself) went to 72nd dyke to look for the Mountain Bluebird as reported on Metro Vancouver’s Rare Bird Alert Monday Dec. 5. We were fortunate to see a bright vibrant blue male feeding close to the dyke 200 metres east of
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DNCB Outing No. 2019-11 to Iona Regional Park
Twenty-eight DNCBers enjoyed a record warm (24˚C) Tuesday morning at Iona Regional Park. There were tonnes of birds around on this gorgeous walk, many in beautiful breeding plumage; check out some spectacular photos on our DNCB Flickr site. Hi-lite, less common, species seen today were Mountain Bluebirds, Say’s Phoebe (BBRP), Canvasbacks and Northern Shrike. Roger
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-13 to Iona Regional Park
More photos at our DNCB Flickr site Twelve crazy birders braved the rain, again for the 5th consecutive outing, on a surprisingly very successful outing to Iona Regional Park. Check out the photo evidence of Wednesday’s outing on our Flickr site at: www.flickr.com/groups/dncb, then click the magnifying glass icon in the “Photo Pool” row, and
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-11 to Brunswick Point
It was another wet and rainy Tuesday morning with only six DNCBers braving the “normal” BC elements at Brunswick Point… We estimated 60,000 shorebirds (wish we could ID the different species) were feeding at Roberts Bank this morning, along with the thousands of ducks, mostly Green-winged Teal, Northern Pintail, American Wigeon and Mallards. About 20…
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DNCB Outing No. 2015-29 to Manning Park
There were about 30 folk from four BC Nature Clubs (Chilliwack, Langley, White Rock/Surrey and Delta) on Wednesday’s outing to Manning Park. It was very slightly overcast, but a gorgeous day. Gerhard and I left the Ladner Bus Exchange at 6:45 a.m. and had a very pleasant and relaxing drive along the SFPR, Highway’s 1

