Category: Killdeer
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Jackman Wetlands & Aldergrove Regional Park, January 13, 2026
PHOTO: Bewick’s Wren by Terry Carr…. Nine Delta Nats met at Jackman Wetlands in Langley – Bob, Terry, Teresa, Connie, Christine, Freddie, Margaret, Claude and Dottie. Debbi arrived for her walk as we were leaving. Around the parking lot were Crows, Starlings and White-crowned Sparrows. A small raptor on a distant branch was probably a
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Boundary Bay Dyke at 64th, December 30, 2025
PHOTO: Cooper’s Hawk by Terry Carr….. Eight Delta Nats met at the end of 64th Street to walk along the dyke – Bob, Fen, Susan, Teresa, Dottie, Connie, Dorothy and Terry. It was a very cold foggy morning so it was hard to see the birds. We could hear gunshots but we could not see
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Blackie Spit, October 1, 2025
PHOTO: Great Blue Heron by Bruce Taylor…. Four of us met in the parking lot of Blackie Spit. We were Bruce, Nicki, Stephanie and Bee. We started out toward the spit with a scope in tow. It got increasingly blowy as we scanned through huge rafts of ducks along one of the low tide sand
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Blackie Spit, September 30, 2025
PHOTO: Steller’s Jay with Acorn, by Susan Gemeinhardt…. Five Delta Naturalists met (casually, of course) in the Blackie Spit parking lot on a beautiful morning: Bob, Dottie, Connie, Colin and Susan. Given that there had been heavy rain the day before and more was predicted in the evening, we felt lucky to feel the sun
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Brunswick Point, September 23, 2025
PHOTO: House Finch by Colin Huggett… 9 Delta Nats met at Brunswick Point on River Road in Ladner on a gorgeous fall morning – Roger, Margaretha, Jim, Lindly, Colin, Dottie, Mike, Bob, Terry. Jim and Mike left their cars at the 34th Ave entrance to the dyke – to ferry us all back to River
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Centennial Beach, September 9, 2025
PHOTO: Least Sandpiper by Bob Winston…. Thirteen Delta Nats met at Centennial Beach on a gray, still, and mild, early fall morning — Anne, Dottie, Bob, Lorna, Connie, Vicky, Roger, Jim, Lynne, Warren, Lindly, Freddie, and David. Only crows were active near the parking lot, although later we did see a small flock of Brewer’s
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Jackman Wetlands, July 22, 2025
PHOTO: Sora by Christine Gaio…. 15 birders met at Jackman Wetlands Park in Langley Township – Alaina, Cole, Arthur, Terry, Susan, Lee, Stephanie, Colin, Christine, Carolyn, Renata, Lidia, Bill, Dottie, Connie. We left Tsawwassen in its usual bright sunshine, but it was overcast here all morning. Part of our drive was along scenic Zero Avenue
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway & Reifel, June 4, 2025
PHOTO: Red-tailed Hawk by Christine Gaio…. Three of us met at the ferry causeway – Freddie, Lorna and Terry. The tide was fairly low and there were very few birds. Most of the waterbirds have headed to interior lakes for breeding. There was a solitary Black Oystercatcher and a very curious baby Yellow-bellied Marmot. The
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway & Reifel, June 3, 2025
PHOTO: Baby Yellow-bellied Marmot by Bruce Taylor…. 4 of us met at the pullout along the ferry jetty at 8am on a very windy morning. Bruce and I got there first and scanned for birds but other than a lone Black Oystercatcher, there wasn’t much to see. Doug and Chris met us at 8 and
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Delta Naturalists Outing to Centennial Beach, April 30, 2025
PHOTO:Killdeer by Glen Bodie….. Another beautiful sunny day for birding – Bald Eagles in the sky and the trees, song birds calling from the bushes – so 9 DNCBers met at Centennial Beach: Colin and Stephanie, Warren and Lynne, Al (sans Liz), Jim, Margaretha, Anne and Glen. We followed “the usual” route around the park.
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