Category: Yellow Warbler
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-20C to Queen Elizabeth Park, May 19, 2022
With the rain drumming down and the wind howling in the Douglas Firs outside my apartment, we made the call on Wednesday morning to cancel our bird trip, and thank goodness we did because today’s outing to Queen Elizabeth gardens was a smorgasbord of sunshine, warblers, and flycatchers! Gabriele, Margaretha, Marion, Glen, Kirsten, and I…
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-19A to North 40 Park Reserve, May 10, 2022
The North 40 Park Reserve was a great place to be on Tuesday morning, May 10, and I know 12 people who will agree with me: Terry, Lorna, Mike B1, Roger K, Lee, Jacquie, Dottie, Lindly, Johnny Mac, Bryan, Dirk and Sean. It seemed to threaten rain at the start, but by the end it…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-36 to DeBoville Slough on September 7, 2021
The weather forecast called for possible showers and we did encounter some drizzle as we departed Tsawwassen about 07:30, however, 7 intrepid birders turned up for our walk along the North side of the slough. Marion was early, and the rest of us a bit late as the traffic was slow in spots. The group…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-35B to Alaksen on September 1, 2021
Noreen and I started at the Ferry Causeway about 07:45, and although we did not see the Brown Pelicans, we saw 12 species including the noisy Black Oystercatchers and Caspian Terns. About 08:45 we headed to Alaksen to meet up with the rest. A group of 10 intrepid birders (**see below) gathered at the Alaksen…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-34B to Iona Regional Park on August 25, 2021
Eight of us met at the washrooms or beach area about 8 AM. David & Noreen were a few minutes late as they stopped to photograph a pair of Caspian Terns sitting on a log along the causeway to Iona. Chris, Jim, Kirsten, Roger 2, Mike B2 and Lidia were already at the beach and…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-34A to Iona Regional Park on August 24, 2021
13 people met at 8am, and we walked to the beach. There was a group of shorebirds that we had trouble identifying. Photos showed them to be Baird’s Sandpipers. Caspian Terns were noisily fighting over a small fish. Birds seen on the walk to the gate to the inner ponds included American Goldfinches, Red-winged Blackbirds,…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-33B to Burnaby Lake on August 18, 2021
Our small group arrived at the Piper Avenue entrance in 4 segments separated by track crossing closures that were the result of refuelling two track maintenance machines right at the crossing. We were all across the tracks by about 8:20, and the six of us (Warren & Lynne, Marion, Lidia Noreen & David) started our…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-33A to Burnaby Lake on August 17, 2021
It was an overcast day, which frustrated some photographers, but it didn’t slow down the chat-fest among the 10 people on our walk in Burnaby Lake Park. The 10 were Jonathan and Lorraine, Brian and Louise, Roger M, Mike B, Lorna, Pat, Janet H and Glen. There were a lot of Wood Ducks, young and…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-31 to Surrey Bend Regional Park on August 3, 2021
12 people signed up for our outing to Surrey Bend on Tuesday August 3 – and no one signed up for Wednesday. The 12 were Chris, Jim, Pat, Janet, Marion, Lidia, David, Noreen, Kirsten, Gabriele, Margaretha and Glen. We contemplated forming 2 groups of 6, but in the end we mixed it all up as…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-28B to Maplewood Flats on July 14, 2021
Seven folks met at 8:30. By then David and Noreen had already found 7 species, including the best one of the day, with photo, an Evening Grosbeak by the still water behind the old office. Later searches did not produce the bird again. We were Jonathan and Lorraine with grand-daughter Melia, David and Noreen, newbie…
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