Delta Naturalists Society

Category: Harris’s Sparrow

• DNCB “Birds on the Bay” Outing No. 2018-50 in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  I’m Baaaaack!  About 30 participants, including ten Newbies, enjoyed a sunny Wednesday morning walk on our quarterly Birds on the Bay (BOTB) outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP).  Lots of neat sightings and, of course inane chatter.  Check out the brilliant photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site. As we gathered at 9:00 am

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  December 12, 2018

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Barrow’s Goldeneye, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Centennial Beach, Cooper’s Hawk, Dunlin, Eurasian Wigeon, Harris’s Sparrow, Mew Gull, Northern Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Purple Finch, Red-breasted Merganser, Sanderling, Trumpeter Swan

• DNCB Outing No. 2018-42 to Jericho Beach Park

  Check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site. It was a beautiful fall morning, and we had a large turnout for today’s Jericho Beach outing.  From Petra’s, birders Mike 1, driving Lorna and Anne, picked up Roger (me) in east Ladner, while David, Noreen, Glen and Mike 2 travelled together arriving at Jericho

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  October 16, 2018

  *DNCB, Bonaparte’s Gull, Harris’s Sparrow, Jericho Beach, Red-breasted Merganser, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Yellow-rumped Warbler

• DNCB Outing 2015-5 to Ferry Causeway & Reifel Bird Sanctuary

  Photos by Liz (LS), Terry (TC), Jim (JK), David M (DM), Tony (TM), and Roger (RM). Twenty-one DNCBers enjoyed a bountiful birding morning, 56 years after the “Day the Music Died”, at our “Mecca” Reifel Bird Sanctuary.  Hi-lites included rarities Harris’s and Swamp Sparrows, Northern Saw-whet and Great Horned Owls, three Wren species, and lots

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  February 3, 2015

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Barred Owl, Black Oystercatcher, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Bonaparte’s Gull, Cooper’s Hawk, Eurasian Wigeon, Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, Great Horned Owl, Harris’s Sparrow, Northern Harrier, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Pelagic Cormorant, Peregrine Falcon, Red-necked Grebe, Red-tailed Hawk, Reifel, Rough-legged Hawk, Sandhill Crane, Swamp Sparrow, Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway