Category: Chipping Sparrow
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Manning Park, July 8, 2025
PHOTO: Cascade Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel by Terry Carr… Six Delta Nats met at the parking lot by Manning Park Resort – Carolyn, Bill, Lee, Margaret, Connie and Terry. Much of the parking area is now reserved by a bank of Tesla charging stations and a few other EV charging stations. The picnic area had the

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Delta Naturalists Outing to Brydon Lagoon & Hi-Knoll Park, April 16, 2025
PHOTO: Common Merganser by Glen Bodie…. 8 DNCBers met at the Brydon Lagoon parking on a sunny morning: Warren and Lynne, Claude and Freddie, Colin, Richard, Anne and Glen. The birds were entertaining us right from the start in the parking lot – Canada Geese, American Goldfinch, Song Sparrow, House Sparrow and Anna’s Hummingbird. We

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Delta Naturalists Outing to Manning Park, July 9, 2024
PHOTO: Paintbrush Trail by Terry Carr…. Eleven Delta Nats met at Manning Park Resort on the hottest day of the year. Some had wisely driven up the day before and spent the night there. On the way up some of us stopped near the park entrance to look for Pikas. These little rodents were scurrying

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DNCB Outing No. 2023-29A to Victoria, July 18, 2023
Five Delta Nats met in the Tsawwassen ferry terminal for the 7am ferry to Swartz Bay – Lidia, Margaret, Lee, Lorna and Terry. From the windows on the walkway to the passenger waiting room we saw several very cute gull chicks on the roof. From the ferry we could not see the Brown Pelicans that
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DNCB Outing No. 2022-25B to Sturgeon Slough in Pitt Meadows, June 22, 2022
On a morning with threatening skies, 13 DNCBers ventured forth in the wilds north of Pitt Meadows in search of 2 target birds: the Yellow-breasted Chat and the Lazuli Bunting – both seen before, and known to frequent Sturgeon Slough. The 13 were Terry, Brian and Louise, Mike, Lorna, Gabriele, Lidia, Jonathan, Roger, Richard, Margaretha,
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-25B to Sturgeon Slough on June 23, 2021
It was another gorgeous day, a little hazy, but mostly not too hot. A group of five on Wed met at 8:30ish. We watched Purple Martins actively building nests on and in old pylons, some in cavities in the post sides, and others in cavities on the tops of the posts. We forget sometimes that
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DNCB – Sturgeon Slough June 4, 2021
COVID response measures meant that we could have large group outings. The previous official DNCB Outing was on 10 March 2020 (2020-10 to Iona Regional Park). Here is a summary of some individual and small group outings since then (with Flickr photo links). Some people added photos to the group Flickr site. (Flickr) June 4, 2021

