Delta Naturalists Society

Category: Osprey

• DNCB Outing 2015-35 to Barnston Island

  See more photos at DNCB Picasa website Eleven weather-hardy Birding Brigaders assembled on that rainy Wednesday morning at the ferry dock in North Surrey for only the second tour of Barnston Island.  The island, named in 1827 for Hudson Bay Company clerk George Barnston, is just over 1,500 acres of farmland and has about 150

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  September 2, 2015

  *DNCB, Barnston Island, Cooper’s Hawk, Northern Harrier, Osprey, Turkey Vulture

• DNCB Outing No. 2015-27 to Burnaby Lake

  Photos by Roger (RM), Glen (GB), Marion MS), Ken (KB), Pat (PS) posted at DNCB Picasa site – more photos will be added to this Report, please check back SOON! Fourteen DNCBirders met at Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake, on a warm, if not hazy from forest fire smoke, day.  They were Tom, Ken and Anne,

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  July 8, 2015

  Burnaby Lake, Douglas Squirrel, Osprey, Sandhill Crane

• DNCB Outing No. 2015-24 to Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area

  Photos by Roger (RM), Terry (TC), Glen (GB), Jonathan (JM), Pascale & Alberto (P&A), Eric (EL) & Liz (LS) at DNCB Picasa site Twenty-three DNCBers enjoyed another glorious and very warm Wednesday morning on an “away” outing to Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area, aka Pitt Lake, Pitt Polder, Grant Narrows, north of Coquitlam.  Lots of

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  June 17, 2015

  *DNCB, American Redstart, Bald Eagle, Band-tailed Pigeon, Black Bear, Bullock’s Oriole, Cliff Swallow, Eastern Kingbird, Grant Narrows, Osprey, Pitt Lake, Pitt-Addington Marsh WMA, River Otter, Turkey Vulture, Western Tanager

• DNCB Outing No. 2015-22 to Cheam Lake Regional Park & Chilliwack Great Blue Heron Reserve

  Full set of photos by Glen (GB) & Marion (MS) at DNCB Picasa site For a trip that was on the brink of cancellation, this DNCB outing turned out surprisingly well.  Tom, Terry and Roger had all abandoned the leadership position claiming various reasons, so I had been volunteered to spearhead the ascent of the

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  June 3, 2015

  *DNCB, Cheam Lake Regional Park, Chilliwack Great Blue Heron Reserve, Green Frog, Osprey, Red-eyed Vireo, Turkey Vulture, Vaux’s Swift, Warbling Vireo, Western Tanager

• DNCB Outing No. 2015-21 to Maplewood Flats

  Sixteen DNCBers enjoyed another gorgeous Wednesday morning wandering the trails in Maplewood Flats Conservation Area in North Vancouver.  We didn’t see a lot of birds, heard several (e.g. Gray Catbird), saw the nesting Osprey and Purple Martins, and really just enjoyed a nice walk in a beautiful area.  Check out the photo evidence at: https://picasaweb.google.com/113357506005013094897.

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  May 27, 2015

  Bald Eagle, Black-tailed Deer, Green Heron, Maplewood Flats, Osprey, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Pelagic Cormorant

• DNCB Outing No. 2014-30 to Iona Regional Park

  See photos on DNCB Picasa site by Liz Stewart (LS), Bryan King (BK), Marion Shikaze (MS), Terry Carr (TC), Glen Bodie (GB) & Ken Borrie (KB) On another gorgeous Wednesday morning, twenty-five DNCBers, a huge ungainly group, toured Iona Regional Park and the next-door Sewage Lagoons.  Hi-lites ranged from the Spotted Sandpipers to Warbler and

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  July 30, 2014

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Iona Beach Regional Park, Osprey, Spotted Sandpiper

• DNCB Outing No. 2014-28 to Pitt Lake

  More photos at DNCB Picasa website Eight of us left Petra’s in two cars (Tom, Gerhard, Jane, Julian and Kay, Glen, Roger, Mike) to reunite on the road up to the lake when Roger grabbed a terrified Northern Flicker from under a mob of crows.  He launched it into nearby dense shrubbery, in hopes it

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  July 16, 2014

  *DNCB, Bullock’s Oriole, Cliff Swallow, Eastern Kingbird, Gray Catbird, Northern Harrier, Osprey, Pitt Lake, Pitt-Addington Marsh WMA, Turkey Vulture

• DNCB Outing No. 2014-18 to Barnston Island

  Photos by Terry Carr (TC), Glen Bodie (GB), Bill Denham (BD), Liz Stewart (LS), Greg Hall (GH), Jim Kneesch (JK), Marion Shikaze (MS), Ken Borrie (KB) See their photo albums at DNCB Flickr site. Twenty-one DNCBers enjoyed another gorgeous Wednesday morning wandering around a new destination, Barnston Island (BI) in Surrey.  Some hi-lites included good

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  May 7, 2014

  Bald Eagle, Barnston Island, Great Horned Owl, Osprey, Red-tailed Hawk, Turkey Vulture

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-38 to Derby Reach Regional Park

  Click on any photo to see larger versionPHOTOS by Tony, Terry, Marion & Ken Fifteen participants enjoyed another gorgeous, sunny and warm Wednesday morning of “almost-birding” at a new DNCB destination, Derby Reach Regional Park in Langley.  Not many birds seen, but some non-bird hi-lites were the walk through a beaut mixed forest and then

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  September 25, 2013

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Derby Reach, Edgewater Bar, Fort-to-Fort Trail, Houston Trail, Osprey, Turkey Vulture

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-29B Cruise in San Juan Islands

  Six DNCBers (Tom, Sheila, Anne M, Pauline, Lorna, Al) met in Blaine to take the San Juan Island Cruise (see website/blog http://www.whales.com/).  Terry Carr took the same tour earlier on July 13. The following Report by naturalist Victoria Souze is posted on the website of San Juan Cruises at http://blog.whales.com/2013/08/bird-watching-cruise-report-%E2%80%93-july-27-2013/ We left the harbor on

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  July 27, 2013

  California Sea Lion, Common Murre, Harbour Porpoise, Harbour Seal, Heermann’s Gull, Herring Gull, Minke Whale, Orca, Osprey, Pigeon Guillemot, Rhinoceros Auklet, River Otter, Tufted Puffin