Category: Pitt-Addington Marsh WMA
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Pitt Meadows, June 18, 2025
A very early start to avoid rush hour and an impending rain storm resulted in a very pleasant and successful bird outing for one DNS member! Despite the looming rain clouds many birds were singing and showing up on my two hour walk along Katzie Marsh trail and the drive past Catbird Slough where I stopped
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Pitt Meadows, June 17, 2025
PHOTO: Lazuli Bunting by Christine Giao…. 13 DNCBers met at Sturgeon Slough in Pitt Meadows – Margaret, Lee, Bryce, Christine, Connie, Carolyn, Bill, Lidia, Mike, Freddie, Claude, Roger & Terry. The east side of the road was very birdy – Cedar Waxwings, Willow Flycatcher, Hairy Woodpecker, Tree Swallows and a gorgeous Lazuli Bunting that Christine
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Sturgeon Slough, June 12, 2024
PHOTO: Yellow-breasted Chat by Terry Carr…. 13 indomitable Casual Birders gathered at Rannie Road in the Pitt Valley at 8:50am for our walk to Sturgeon Slough. It was cloudy, but the rain held off. Rannie Road intersects with Ladner Road just south of here, so our local-area Ladner family must have had relatives that built
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DNCB Outing No. 2018-25 to Pitt Lake
Check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site With a very hot day predicted six members met at Petra’s (Mike and Hannah, his cousin’s daughter from Wales, Terry, Angela, Lauris, Noreen and David, and reluctant blogger Roger) and headed out in two cars and, almost without incident, arrived at the Pitt Lake parking
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-22 to Pitt Lake
Photos by Brian Avent (BA), Chris McVittie (CMcV), Glen Bodie (GB), Maureen Sinilaid, Pat Smart (PS) & Marty Allen (MA) More photos at our DNCB Flickr site Thirteen DNCBers enjoyed a beautiful morning walking the circuit at the spectacular Pitt Polder-Addington Marsh Park at Grant Narrows (aka Pitt Lake). We have visited this Park annually
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-24 to Pitt Lake
About 22 (I lost count; guesstimate participant list at end) DNCBers enjoyed some beautiful vistas and interesting sightings on our Wednesday morning walk in the Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area. Check out lots of photos on our DNCB Picasa site. Eight of us left Petra’s at 7:30 a.m., car-pooling nicely in two vehicles, and made
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DNCB Outing No. 2015-24 to Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area
Photos by Roger (RM), Terry (TC), Glen (GB), Jonathan (JM), Pascale & Alberto (P&A), Eric (EL) & Liz (LS) at DNCB Picasa site Twenty-three DNCBers enjoyed another glorious and very warm Wednesday morning on an “away” outing to Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area, aka Pitt Lake, Pitt Polder, Grant Narrows, north of Coquitlam. Lots of
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DNCB Outing No. 2014-28 to Pitt Lake
More photos at DNCB Picasa website Eight of us left Petra’s in two cars (Tom, Gerhard, Jane, Julian and Kay, Glen, Roger, Mike) to reunite on the road up to the lake when Roger grabbed a terrified Northern Flicker from under a mob of crows. He launched it into nearby dense shrubbery, in hopes it
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DNCB Outing NO. 2013-23 Grant Narrows/Pitt Lake/Katzie Slough
The morning did not look promising as it was raining lightly in Tsawwassen as we met at Petra’s. Newcomer Glen, Sheila, Terry, Kay, (latecomer) Lorna, and myself (Roger) left for Pitt Meadows in two cars and picked up Mike in New West on the way. Just before reaching the lake we stopped to view a
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DNCB Outing No. 2012-24 to Grant Narrows Park
Seven birders (Lorna, Kay, Marion S, rookie Jane K, Eric L, Anne M and me) got drenched on this morning’s “away” outing to beautiful Grant Narrows Regional Park (now operated by the Katzie Development Corp.) at Pitt Lake. Hi-lites included: beaut looks at several Warbler species, including a MacGillivray’s Warbler, nesting Ospreys, and finally seeing
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