Category: Bald Eagle
-
DNCB Outing No. 2021-46B to White Rock & Blackie Spit, November 17, 2021
Eleven of us met at the entrance to the WR Pier, and once we concurred that it was indeed 08:08, we headed out (some of us were a bit behind on our timing). There were lots of Surf & White-winged Scoters feeding close along the pilings, which provided very close viewing as they were regularly…
-
DNCB Outing No. 2021-43B to Boundary Bay Dyke at 104th on October 27, 2021
It was a windy windy day on the Dike at 104th St. All ten of us (*see below) managed to keep our hats on and the rain stayed away. We were a little early at 9am but the tide came in quickly – it didn’t bring that many shorebirds with it. The crows and Eagles…
-
DNCB Outing No. 2021-43A to Boundary Bay Dyke at 104th on October 26, 2021
Eleven hardy souls gathered at 9 AM in the SE winds and hoped for the rain to hold off during our stroll along the dyke. Lidia had arrived earlier when there were still a few sandbars, but the low pressure combined with the SE wind had brought a “Storm Surge” high tide which had obliterated…
-
DNCB Outing No. 2021-42 to Iona Beach Regional Park on October 19, 2021
We had a beautiful morning for our DNCB trip to Iona. Even before I got out of my car, I was enjoying the sight of a Cooper’s Hawk sitting just a few metres away. Snow Geese were calling overhead and gathering on the shore as the tide went out and there were many Ring-billed and…
-
DNCB Outing No. 2021-41B to Ladner Harbour Park and Boundary Bay Dyke at 104th, October 13, 2021
A small contingent of 6 (Pat, Manli, Lidia, Gabriel, Noreen & David) started at the parking lot and walked the road to the start of the Shirley Trail checking the slough for Roger’s Pied-billed Grebe from Tuesday that had been there as we drove in. It was hidden, but Mallards, a Great Blue Heron, and…
-
DNCB Outing No. 2021-41A to Ladner Harbour Park and Boundary Bay Dyke at 104th, October 12, 2021
We met at Ladner Harbour Park at 8am on a cool, dry morning. Roger saw a Pied-billed Grebe by the bridge before the parking lot. Our walk began along the recently completed Shirley’s Path with its impressive new bridge; then continued along the usual loop through the trees to the river and the viewing platform.…
-
DNCB Outing No. 2021-39A to Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway & Reifel on September 28, 2021
The Tuesday people were lucky with the weather. Despite a wet forecast, the rain stopped before 7am. It was windy and cold when 5 of us met on the Tsawwassen ferry causeway at 7:45. But the wind had died down and the sky was clearing when 14 met at the Reifel Bird Sanctuary at 9am.…
-
DNCB Outing No. 2021-32B to Terra Nova on August 11, 2021
While four of us, Noreen and David, Lidia and Marion S. were waiting at the parking lot, we kept hearing a loud sharp “aoowww”! We soon spotted a Green Heron being harassed by a swallow as it sat in a bare-branched tree out in the marsh. The heron continued to call after the swallow left,…
-
DNCB Outing No. 2021-32A to Terra Nova on August 10, 2021
Eleven**(see below) birders showed up at 8:00 am to spend a delightful few hours wandering through the Terra Nova natural area in West Richmond. The species count was not that high… 26, but there were some nice sightings. A Western Tanager male on a tree top, with his brilliant colours seeming to glow in the…
-
DNCB Outing No. 2021-30B to Blackie Spit on July 28, 2021
A group of 7 met at 8:00 – they were David and Noreen, Warren and Lynn, Roger2, Mike B2, and Marion S. The spit area was very quiet except for the usual Ring-billed Gulls accompanied by a singular California Gull, Savannah sparrows,and a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird, plus several harbour seals kept an eye on us…
Delta Naturalists Society 