Category: Osprey
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DNCB Outing No. 2018-25 to Pitt Lake
Check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site With a very hot day predicted six members met at Petra’s (Mike and Hannah, his cousin’s daughter from Wales, Terry, Angela, Lauris, Noreen and David, and reluctant blogger Roger) and headed out in two cars and, almost without incident, arrived at the Pitt Lake parking…
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DNCB Outing No. 2018-18 to Whidbey Island, USA
Sixteen DNCBers really enjoyed our “away” outing to Deception Pass and Whidbey Island USA last Wednesday. It was a gorgeous day and we saw lots of neat stuff. Check out the photo evidence at: https://www.flickr.com/search/?group_id=3027315%40N23&text=2018-18&view_all=1. Some left Petra’s at 7:00 am and we met at the Peace Arch Park parking lot at 7:30 am. Marion…
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-24 to Maplewood Flats
More photos at our DNCB Flickr site Eighteen DNCBers spent a glorious Wednesday morning in Maplewood Flats Conservation Area in North Vancouver. Check out the photo evidence on our Flickr site at: www.flickr.com/groups/dncb, then click the magnifying glass icon in the “Photo Pool” row, and add 2017-24 to “DNCB Photos” in the Search box at…
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-22 to Pitt Lake
Photos by Brian Avent (BA), Chris McVittie (CMcV), Glen Bodie (GB), Maureen Sinilaid, Pat Smart (PS) & Marty Allen (MA) More photos at our DNCB Flickr site Thirteen DNCBers enjoyed a beautiful morning walking the circuit at the spectacular Pitt Polder-Addington Marsh Park at Grant Narrows (aka Pitt Lake). We have visited this Park annually…
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-20 to Burnaby Lake
More photos by Chris McVittie (CMcV), Jack MacDonald (JMacD), Jim Kneesch (JK), Maureen Sinilaid (MS), Pat Smart (PS), Glen Bodie (GB), Terry Carr (TC), Roger Meyer (RM) & Ken Borrie (KB) at our DNCB Flickr site More photos of this Outing are on our Flickr website at: www.flickr.com/groups/dncb, then click the magnifying glass icon in…
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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 Outing No. 2016-31 to Cheam Lake
Photos by Roger (RM), Brian (BA), Chris (CM), Terry (TC) from DNCB Flickr site Twenty-two folk met at Cheam Lake Wetlands Regional Park (CLRP) to spend a glorious Wednesday morning walk, and we saw a few birds too. Check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site. Eight of us left Petra’s at 7:45…
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DNCB Outing Report No. 2016-25 to Maplewood Flats
Nineteen DNCBers (names at end of this report) enjoyed a beautiful weekly Wednesday walk on the renovated trails of Maplewood Flats Conservation Area in North Vancouver. We were accompanied and led by renowned Maplewood’s expert, Derek Killby, a Director of the WBT Wild Bird Trust of BC. Pictorial evidence of the outing, including some beautiful…
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-24 to Pitt Lake
About 22 (I lost count; guesstimate participant list at end) DNCBers enjoyed some beautiful vistas and interesting sightings on our Wednesday morning walk in the Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area. Check out lots of photos on our DNCB Picasa site. Eight of us left Petra’s at 7:30 a.m., car-pooling nicely in two vehicles, and made…
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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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