Delta Naturalists Society

Category: Hudsonian Whimbrel

• DNCB Outing No. 2017-06 to Ferry Terminal, TFN, Reifel Bird Sanctuary & Alaksen NWA

  more photos at our DNCB Flickr site Check out photos on our DNCB Flickr site: go to www.flickr.com/groups/dncb, then click the magnifying glass icon in the “Photo Pool” row, and add 2017-06 to “DNCB Photos” in the Search box at the top of the page. Our trip today is the one we cancelled last week

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  February 14, 2017

  *DNCB, Alaksen NWA, Bald Eagle, Black Oystercatcher, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Eurasian Wigeon, Hooded Merganser, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Northern Harrier, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Pelagic Cormorant, Peregrine Falcon, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-tailed Hawk, Reifel, Ring-necked Duck, Sandhill Crane, TFN, Trumpeter Swan, Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway, Virginia Rail

• DNCB Outing No. 2015-15 to Drayton Harbour & Semiahmoo Spit

  photos by Terry (TC), Glen (GB), Marion (MS), Pascale & Alberto (P&A) at DNCB Picasa site Seventeen DNCBers enjoyed another gorgeous Wednesday morning in Blaine, Washington, circling Drayton Harbour.  Hi-lites included many Grebes and other Waterfowl in beautiful breeding plumage and some Whimbrels too.  Check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Picasa site.  

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  April 15, 2015

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Black Oystercatcher, Black Turnstone, Black-bellied Plover, Blaine Marine Park, Caspian Tern, Cooper’s Hawk, Drayton Harbor, Harbour Seal, Harlequin Duck, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Long-tailed Duck, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-necked Grebe, Semiahmoo Spit

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-29 on the Gulf Island Ferries

  Nineteen DNCBers met on the Salt Spring Ferry round 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday for our all-day Island Ferry “Birding” Outing.  It was a glorious day and it was a wonderful Island Cruise, but we didn’t see a lot of different bird species.  Some hi-lites included: Rhinoceros Auklets, Pigeon Guillemots, Bonaparte Gulls, spectacular scenery and scrumptious

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  July 24, 2013

  *DNCB, Black Turnstone, Bonaparte’s Gull, Galiano Island, Harbour Porpoise, Harbour Seal, Harlequin Duck, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Mayne Island, Mink, Pender Island, Pigeon Guillemot, Rhinoceros Auklet, Salt Spring Island

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-27 to Tsa Tsu Heronry, Tsawwassen Ferry Port, Alaksen and Reifel

  Photos by Terry, Jonathan, Marion, Glen, Roger & Ken will be added soon! I persuaded/conned my naturalist friend Justin Peter with Worldwide Quest Nature Tours to write the DNCB report for our “local” outing on Wednesday morning to the Heronry at Tsa Tsu Shores, the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, through the Tsawwassen First Nations territory and

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  July 10, 2013

  *DNCB, Alaksen NWA, Barn Owl, Black Oystercatcher, Harlequin Duck, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Northern Harrier, Reifel, TFN, TsaTsu Heronry, Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway

• DNCB Outing No. 2013-17 to Blackie Spit

  Photos by Marion, Jonathan, Terry, Roger & Ken Twenty-one participants (Anne M, Kirsten, Marion, Hans, Jonathan & Lorraine, Ken & Anne A, Kay, Al S, Donna, Lorna, Mike, Terry, Bryan & Janet, Roger, Gerhard, Sheila, Jackie and Tom) spent another gorgeous Wednesday morning outing at Blackie Spit.  Check out lots of beaut photos (Marion, Jonathan,

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  May 1, 2013

  Bald Eagle, Blackie Spit, Cooper’s Hawk, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Peregrine Falcon

• DNCB Outing No. 2012-27 to the North Forty and Blackie Spit

  Eleven participants (Terry C, Anne M, Eleanor C, Peggy K, Gerhard L, Mike B, Deborah T, Eric L, Ken B. & Anne A come lately, and me, plus Annie K and Eileen who left for coffee before we arrived at Blackie Spit) enjoyed some decent birding on a spitting rain day at the North Forty

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  June 13, 2012

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Blackie Spit, Dunsmuir Gardens, Hudsonian Whimbrel, North Forty/VWS