Delta Naturalists Society

Category: Northern Harrier

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-11 to Serpentine Fen

  More photos from DNCB Picasa site will be added soon! Another massive crowd of 29 DNCBers (named at and) toured Serpentine Wildlife Management Area (SWMA) in Surrey on a pleasant Tuesday morning.  It was a another spread-out, gabfest, but we got lots of neat sightings.  Check out the beaut photo evidence, including shots of birds,

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  March 15, 2016

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Merlin, Northern Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-tailed Hawk, Ruddy Duck, Serpentine Fen, Virginia Rail, Yellow-rumped Warbler

• DNCB Birds on the Bay Outing No. 2016-10 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  more photos by Jim (JK), Glen (GB), Pat (PS) on the DNCB Picasa site. Almost 30 folk (see 29 names at end) enjoyed a dry but windy quarterly Birds on the Bay outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP) yesterday (Wednesday).  Not a lot of birds seen, but a few neat species, and a super

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  March 9, 2016

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Black Oystercatcher, Cammidge House, Centennial Beach, Eurasian Teal, Northern Harrier, Red-breasted Merganser, Western Gull

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-8 to Alaksen NWA and Reifel Bird Sanctuary

  Photos from the DNCB Picasa site by Pascale & Alberto (P&A), Brian (BA), Roger (RM), Terry Carr (TC), Glen (GB), Marion (MS), & Pat (PS) A huge crowd of 30 DNCBers enjoyed a beautiful, sunny and mild Tuesday morning of birding at our “Mecca”, the Alaksen National Wildlife Area (NWA) and Reifel Bird Sanctuary.  We

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  February 23, 2016

  *DNCB, Alaksen NWA, Bald Eagle, Black-bellied Plover, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Harbour Seal, Hutton’s Vireo, Mink, Northern Harrier, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-tailed Hawk, Reifel, Rough-legged Hawk, Sandhill Crane, Trumpeter Swan, Virginia Rail

• DNCB Birds on the Bay Outing No. 2015-49 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  On a surprisingly beautiful sunny Wednesday morning, 30 participants, some visiting from Korea, Spain and North Vancouver, participated in our quarterly Birds on the Bay outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park.  Check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Picasa site.  You will also see photos of the installation of our Delta Nats “Tesla (formerly

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  December 9, 2015

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Birds-on-the-Bay, Boundary Bay, Cammidge House, Long-billed Dowitcher, Mew Gull, Northern Harrier, Red-breasted Merganser, Thayer’s Gull

• DNCB Outing No. 2015-46 to Terra Nova Park

  Only six hardy souls braved the elements on Tuesday on our outing to Terra Nova Park in Richmond.  We saw a few birds and other neat stuff (e.g. Perigeal Raft); check out Pascale’s i-phone photos on our DNCB Picasa site. It was pouring rain at Petra’s at 7:30 a.m. and only Mike B and visiting

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  November 17, 2015

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Eurasian Wigeon, Northern Harrier, Terra Nova

• DNCB Outing No. 2015-43 to Campbell Valley Regional Park

  Photos by Ken (KB), Pascale & Alberto (P&A), Jim (JK), Liz (LS), Pat (PS) and Maureen (MS) – more at the DNCB Picasa site At about 8:00 on a sunny, albeit initially cool Tuesday morning, twenty one enthusiastic nature nuts assembled in the parking lot off 16th Avenue.  The group photo taken at the kiosk

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  October 27, 2015

  *DNCB, Campbell Valley RP, Cooper’s Hawk, Douglas Squirrel, Muskrat, Northern Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-tailed Hawk, Townsend’s Chipmunk

• DNCB Report No. 2015-42 to Brunswick Point

  Photos by Glen (GB), Liz (LS), Pascale & Alberto (P&A), Jonathan (JM) & Tony (TM) Twenty-three DNCBers (names at the end of this report) spent another beautiful Delta morning walking the dike trail at Brunswick Point (BP).  There were many thousands of birds using this Roberts Bank IBA (Important Bird Area) to feed on their

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  October 20, 2015

  *DNCB, Black-bellied Plover, Brunswick Point, Coyote, Northern Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Ring-necked Pheasant

• DNCB Outing No. 2015-40 to Serpentine Fen

  Eighteen drenched DNCBers enjoyed a brief Wednesday morning outing at the Serpentine Wildlife Management Area in Surrey.  A few interesting sightings on our rain-shortened outing; check out the photo evidence (more to come) on our DNCB Picasa site. We met at the Serpentine parking lot near the Barn Owl barn at 8:00 a.m. and quickly

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  October 7, 2015

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Northern Harrier, Serpentine Fen

• DNCB Outing No. 2015-37 to Boundary Bay and Reifel Bird Sanctuary

  About 25 folk participated in various aspects of Wednesday’s “erratic” DNCB outing to Boundary Bay at 104th and 96th Streets, then Reifel Bird Sanctuary.  This was the alternate destination as our Mt. Baker outing (poor weather) was postponed to next Wednesday, Sept. 23.  There is some super photo evidence on our DNCB Picasa site. Seven

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  September 16, 2015

  104 Street, 96 Street, American Golden-Plover, American Pipit, Bald Eagle, Bank Swallow, Boundary Bay, Caspian Tern, Dunlin, House Wren, Least Sandpiper, Lincoln’s Sparrow, Merlin, Northern Harrier, Orange-crowned Warbler, Red-tailed Hawk, Redhead, Reifel, Sandhill Crane, Sora, Virginia Rail, Yellow-rumped Warbler

• DNCB “Birds on the Bay” Outing No. 2015-36 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  Photos by Tony (TM), Terry (TC), Marion (MS), Jim (JK), Glen (GB) & Pascale & Alberto (P&A) more photos at DNCB Picasa site Almost 40 folk (Wow!) from all over the BC Lower Mainland participated in our Delta Naturalists’ quarterly “Birds on the Bay (BOTB)” outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP) on Wednesday (this

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  September 9, 2015

  *DNCB, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Centennial Beach, Least Sandpiper, Merlin, Northern Harrier