Category: Red-breasted Sapsucker
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Burnaby Lake & Como Lake, November 4, 2025
PHOTO: Amanita muscaria by Chris McVittie… 9 Delta Nats met at the Piper Avenue entrance to Burnaby Lake Regional Park – Chris, Christine, Lidia, Margaret, Dorothy, Terry, TK, Glen and Connie. Once again traffic was terrible for those of us coming from south of the Fraser. But it was a glorious fall day. There was

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Delta Naturalists Outing to Cypress Provincial Park, July 1, 2025
PHOTO: Townsend’s Warbler by Susan Gemeinhardt…. 10 DNCBers met at the High View Lookout on Cypress Mountain – Dorothy, Lidia, Susan, Lindly, Caude, Terry, Christine, Bruce, Nicki, Freddie. Traffic was very light in both directions on the Canada Day holiday. There was a great view down to the city. We often have nice bird sightings

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Delta Naturalists Outing to Campbell Valley Regional Park, May 28, 2025
PHOTO: Black-headed Grosbeak by Terry Carr…. Ten Delta Nats met at Campbell Valley Regional Park in Langley – Margaret, Richard, Terry, Connie, Lynne, Warren, Freddie, Dorothy, Margaretha, Claude. The birds seemed to be few and far between on our shady forest walk. Merlin teased us with songs of birds that we could not see. We

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Delta Naturalists Outing to Terra Nova, February 12, 2025
PHOTO: Red-winged Blackbird by Glen Bodie…. On a bright clear sunny crisp and crunchy day at Terra Nova eight DNCBers met: Richard, Colin and Stephanie, Warren and Lynne, Lou, Anne and Glen. There were also a few Nature Vancouver birders there trying to find each other amid the construction trucks fixing the road. Perhaps our

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Delta Naturalists Outing to Campbell Valley Regional Park & Fergus Biodiversity Preserve, May 14, 2024
PHOTO: Black-headed Grosbeak by Terry Carr…… Five Delta Nats met at Campbell Valley Regional Park in Langley – Lidia, Jacquie, Dottie, Terry and Christine. Beside the parking lot we followed the sound of two Wilson’s Warblers, but we could not find them. We did see Song Sparrows, Robins, Cowbirds and Towhees. An Eastern Grey Squirrel

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Birding Outing to Point Roberts, USA with Delta Naturalists on January 16, 2024: Seabirds and a Sapsucker
PHOTO: Harlequin Ducks by Terry Carr……. It was a hardy group of birders who met at Point Roberts this morning. The temperature was hovering down in the minus numbers, the ground was frozen, and even the fairly gentle wind off the ocean was enough to give finger-numbing wind chill. Some of us called in at Kiniski’s beach,

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DNCB Outing No. 2023-31A to Manning Park, August 1, 2023
Fifteen DNCBers met at the Manning Park Resort. The usual families of Columbian Ground Squirrels were entertaining park visitors in the picnic area. Here most of us also saw Canada Jays, Steller’s Jays, Ravens, Flickers, Robins, Clark’s Nutcrackers, and Barn Swallows. Brian and Louise saw 12 Evening Grosbeaks and Glen saw a Sapsucker. Most of
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-27A to Cypress Provincial Park, July 5, 2022
Four DNCBers met at Cypress Provincial Park in West Vancouver on July 5 – Margaret G, Lorna, Glen and Terry. We enjoyed the view to Vancouver from Dave Barrett’s Lookout, but there were fewer birds than we expected – only Robins and Juncos, and a Turkey Vulture circling above. We then drove to the parking
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DNCB Okanagan Field Trip, June 12-16, 2022
The following report was compiled by Thea Beckman as a personal account of the DNCB’s field trip to the Okanagan. As such, a personal perspective is used in the story-telling and the determination of birding highlights, list-keeping, and identification criteria. Should you have any questions, contact Thea directly at thea.beckman@gmail.com DAY 1—Manning Park Resort & Beaver
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-27B to Cypress Provincial Park on July 7, 2021
Our group of 8 met at the High View lookout. It was cool and windy, and by the time I got there, early for a change, David and Noreen already had an impressive list of 8 or 9 species, including Band-tailed Pigeons, Warbling Vireo, Swainson’s and Hermit Thrush. We managed to increase the list to
