Category: Yellow Warbler
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway & Reifel, June 4, 2025
PHOTO: Red-tailed Hawk by Christine Gaio…. Three of us met at the ferry causeway – Freddie, Lorna and Terry. The tide was fairly low and there were very few birds. Most of the waterbirds have headed to interior lakes for breeding. There was a solitary Black Oystercatcher and a very curious baby Yellow-bellied Marmot. The…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway & Reifel, June 3, 2025
PHOTO: Baby Yellow-bellied Marmot by Bruce Taylor…. 4 of us met at the pullout along the ferry jetty at 8am on a very windy morning. Bruce and I got there first and scanned for birds but other than a lone Black Oystercatcher, there wasn’t much to see. Doug and Chris met us at 8 and…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Colony Farm Regional Park, May 21, 2025
PHOTO: Bullock’s Oriole by Terry Carr…. Seven Delta Nats met at Colony Farm Regional park in Coquitlam – Roger, Christine, Bob, Freddie, Claude, Dottie, Terry. Our quest for Lazuli Buntings started on the service road below the Labyrinth. Christine managed to photograph the female but the more colourful male did not appear. We did see…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Ladner Harbour Park, May 7, 2025
PHOTO:Canada Geese by Freddie Whiting….. Despite only four of us being signed up for the walk this morning, once everyone gathered we had a nice group of six: Colin, Stephanie, Freddie, Roger, Margaretha, and myself. Rain began drizzling as we arrived at the parking area, but we nonetheless headed to Shirley’s Walk. This lovely trail…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Campbell Valley Regional Park, August 7, 2024
PHOTO: Spotted Towhee (adult & juvenile) by Glen Bodie…. After a few late-the-night-before additions there were 5 birders at CampbellValley: Bill and Carolyn, Richard, Doug and Glen. We almost had the place toourselves. It was a little cool in the shade, but otherwise a hot day with noclouds. We started along the trail over the…
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Delta Naturalists Birding Trip to 100 Mile House, June 23-27, 2024
PHOTO: American Coots by Terry Carr…. REPORT BY THEA BECKMAN: Sunday, June 23 – Travel to 108 Golf Resort Located in the central interior of British Columbia, the Cariboo is an intermontane region sandwiched between the Cariboo Mountains to the east and the Coast Mountains to the west with the Fraser River plateau in between.…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Jackman Wetlands, June 19, 2024
PHOTO: Yellow Warbler by Glen Bodie…. It only takes 2 to make a DNCB group outing – Susan G and Glen. We met at Jackman Wetlands on perhaps the first real warm and sunny summer day this year to see what we could see. Even though there were only 2 pairs of eyeballs at work…
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Jackman Wetlands & Aldergrove Regional Park, June 18, 2024
PHOTO: Pied-billed Grebe by Christine Gaio…. Eleven Delta Nats met at Jackman Wetlands in Langley. Jackman Wetlands, a former landfill site, now has paths, ponds and an 18 hole disc golf course. Players use thick, heavy, Frisbee-like discs and aim for chain baskets as targets. Next door are large movie sets. As we started our…
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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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Delta Naturalists Outing to Colony Farm, June 5, 2024
PHOTO: Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee on Dandelion by Terry Carr….. The Tuesday outing was cancelled because of rain so a combination of Tuesday and Wednesday birders made a group of 20 who met at what was formerly called Colony Farm Regional Park in Coquitlam. Those of us from south of the Fraser were delayed by an…
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