Category: Northern Harrier
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-42 to Brunswick Point
See more photos at DNCB Flickr site At 7:00 AM this morning in Ladner there was monsoon rain and the prospects for birding looked pretty dim. However the Petra’s group of four, Mike, Val, Terry and Glen, felt that it looked good and off they went to the Point where they met a surprising number
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-41 to Iona Regional Park & Sewage Lagoons
See photos at DNCB Flickr site Twenty-seven DNCBers (names listed at the end of this Report) enjoyed a beautiful, sunny autumn morning at Iona Regional Park. The air was crisp and clear, the mountains were spectacular, and the tide was out. Early arrivers to the park were rewarded with the sight of a large flock
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-40 to Queen Elizabeth Park
Fourteen DNCBers spent an overcast but dry and comfortable Tuesday morning wandering around the gorgeous flower beds of Queen Elizabeth Park in downtown Vancouver. There seemed to be a “fallout” of Warblers in the trees so we had lots of neat sightings; check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site and Roger’s Flickr
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-39 to Point Roberts, WA
Around 20 folk (I lost count) enjoyed a gorgeous Wednesday morning of birding at Pt. Roberts. Check out the photo evidence at our DNCB Flickr site. We met at Lighthouse Park in PR shortly after 8:00 am and the Strait was quite rough, although it was sunny and mild (Orcas were seen day before). Some
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-38 to Blackie Spit & Rene Savenye Park
Over 20 DNCBers (see list below) enjoyed a gorgeous morning at Blackie Spit and Rene Savenye Park with many up-close-and-personal sightings of some neat species. Check out photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site. Sightings included: Black Turnstone, Common Loons, Red-necked and Horned Grebes, Green Heron, Long-billed Curlew, three Marbled Godwits, Black-bellied Plovers, Greater Yellowlegs
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DNCB Birds on the Bay Outing No. 2016-37 in Boundary Bay Regional Park
Under gorgeous sunshine this morning, we had more than 30 participants in our quarterly Birds on the Bay (BOTB) outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP). Check out photos (soon I hope) on our new DNCB Flickr site. Also see this report and earlier reports and Delta Nats info on our website. At 9:00 am,
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-36 on Boundary Bay Dike at 104th St.
Twenty-three (wow) DNCBers enjoyed a walk on the mud and the path at the 104th St. entrance to the Boundary Bay dike path. Lots of migrants in the Bay and we had some good sightings on a cloudy but comfortable Wednesday morning. Check out photo evidence on our new DNCB Group Flickr site at: https://www.flickr.com/search/?group_id=3027315%40N23&text=2016-36&view_all=1.
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DNCB Birds-on-the-Bay Outing No. 2016-23 in Boundary Bay Regional Park
About 25 participants, including lots of Newbies, enjoyed our quarterly Birds on the Bay (BOTB) outing this morning in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP). There are not a plethora of birds in BBRP in June, it being nesting time and wintering Shorebirds and Waterfowl have gone to their northern, inland or Arctic nesting grounds, but
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-22 to Surrey Bend Regional Park
At about 8:30 on another great Wednesday morning, twenty two DNC Birding Brigaders began assembling in the parking lot of Surrey Bend Regional Park, a new destination – although some in the group had explored a gravel access track, now called the Pacific Trail, two years ago after an outing to neighbouring Barnston Island. The park,
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-13 to Brunswick Point
About 17 DNCBers enjoyed a gorgeous Tuesday morning along the Brunswick Point (BP) Trail. Check out the beaut photos by Terry, Liz, Glen, Pat and Pascale on our DNCB Picasa site. Five of us left Petra’s at 8:00 a.m. (note new time next Wednesday is 7:30 a.m.) and stopped at the Tsatsu Heronry where the
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