Delta Naturalists Society

Category: Western Sandpiper

• DNCB Outing No. 2018-35 to Sidney Spit National Park

  Fourteen DNCBers enjoyed a fantastic, well-organized, all-day outing to an exciting new destination, Sidney Spit, a Gulf Islands National Park off Vancouver Island.  We saw lots of neat birds too; check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site. We met on the 7:00 am ferry from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay, and yes, Free

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  August 29, 2018

  *DNCB, Baird’s Sandpiper, Black Oystercatcher, California Gull, Common Murre, Harbour Porpoise, Least Sandpiper, Marbled Murrelet, Mew Gull, Pelagic Cormorant, Pigeon Guillemot, Purple Martin, Rhinoceros Auklet, Sanderling, Semipalmated Plover, Sidney Spit National Park, Turkey Vulture, Western Sandpiper, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler

• DNCB Outing No. 2018-33 to Boundary Bay at 104th St.

  About 20 DNCBers enjoyed another beautiful Wednesday morning in Delta, walking along the Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP) trail from 104th St. to the Mansion.  Check out the photo evidence on our Flickr site at: DNCB Flickr site. Some left Petra’s at 7:30 am, and we all met at the Boundary Bay Heritage Airpark at

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  August 15, 2018

  *DNCB, 104 Street, American Golden-Plover, Baird’s Sandpiper, Bald Eagle, Black-bellied Plover, Boundary Bay, Cedar Waxwing, Delta Heritage AirPark, Least Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitcher, MacGillivray’s Warbler, Merlin, Northern Harrier, Sanderling, Semipalmated Plover, Western Sandpiper, Willet, Yellow Warbler

• DNCB Outing No. 2018-30 to Iona Regional Park

  Sixteen DNCBers enjoyed a brilliant, hot & muggy Wednesday morning at Iona Regional Park, a regular and always fruitful destination for us.  Check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site.  Also see Roger’s photos of breaching Orca’s taken at Pt. Roberts before coming to Petra’s at 7:30 am. Some car-pooled from Petra’s at

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  July 25, 2018

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Iona Beach Regional Park, Least Sandpiper, Mink, Peregrine Falcon, Purple Martin, Semi-palmated Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Willow Flycatcher

• DNCB Outing No. 2018-29 to Reifel Bird Sanctuary

  See photos at our DNCB Flickr site Fifteen DNCBers enjoyed another beautiful Summer Wednesday morning in Delta on a local outing to Reifel Bird Sanctuary.  Check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Flickr site. We car-pooled from Petra’s at 7:30 am to our first stop at the pull-off on the causeway to the Tsawwassen

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  July 18, 2018

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Black Oystercatcher, Brandt’s Cormorant, Caspian Tern, Long-billed Dowitcher, Northern Harrier, Osprey, Pelagic Cormorant, Pigeon Guillemot, Purple Martin, Reifel, Sandhill Crane, Semi-palmated Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper

• DNCB Outing No. 2017-46 to Iona Regional Park

  More photos at our DNCB Flickr site It was another miserable Tuesday so only three of us battled the rain at Iona Regional Park.  And, as always happens, it was a very enjoyable and almost comfortable outing, with lots of brilliant sightings.  Check out David’s photos on our Flickr site at: www.flickr.com/groups/dncb, then click the

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  November 21, 2017

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Black-bellied Plover, Canvasback, Dunlin, Hooded Merganser, Iona Beach Regional Park, Long-billed Dowitcher, Pectoral Sandpiper, Peregrine Falcon, Pied-billed Grebe, Red Crossbill, Ring-necked Duck, Ruddy Duck, Rusty Blackbird, Sewage Lagoons, Spotted Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper

• DNCB Outing No. 2017-36 Birds on the Bay in Boundary Bay Regional Park

  More photos at our DNCB Flickr site Around twenty participants enjoyed another glorious Wednesday morning on our quarterly Birds on the Bay outing in Boundary Bay Regional Park.  We reversed our route to accommodate the tide and had some neat sightings.  Check out some spectacular photo evidence on our Flickr site at: www.flickr.com/groups/dncb, then click

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  September 13, 2017

  *DNCB, BBRP, Birds-on-the-Bay, Caspian Tern, Cedar Waxwing, Centennial Beach, Least Sandpiper, Lincoln’s Sparrow, Northern Harrier, Orange-crowned Warbler, Purple Martin, Red-tailed Hawk, Western Sandpiper

• DNCB Outing No. 2017-33 to Boundary Bay Dike at 104th St.

  More photos at our DNCB Flickr site A big crowd of twenty two DNCBers met on the Boundary Bay Dike Trail at 104th Street AirPark for a leisurely Wednesday morning walk, mainly to check out the migratory Shorebirds.  It was a beautiful morning with some neat sightings; check out the photo evidence at: www.flickr.com/groups/dncb, then

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  August 23, 2017

  *DNCB, 104 Street, Baird’s Sandpiper, Black-bellied Plover, Boundary Bay, Cedar Waxwing, Cooper’s Hawk, Delta Heritage AirPark, Least Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitcher, Northern Harrier, Orange-crowned Warbler, Peregrine Falcon, Ruddy Turnstone, Sanderling, Semi-palmated Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper

• DNCB Outing No. 2017-01 to Tsawwassen Ferry Port & Brunswick Point

  more photos at our DNCB Flickr site Part 1:  Sightings with Tom (by Tom Bearss) Ferry Terminal:  Scaup (probably Greater), one Brant, rafts of thousands of ducks, mostly Mallard, Northern Pintail and American Wigeon (at least one Eurasian), Bufflehead, both Common and Barrow’s Goldeneye, both Double-crested and Pelagic Cormorants, Green-winged Teal, a swarm of over

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  January 3, 2017

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Barrow’s Goldeneye, Black Scoter, Black-bellied Plover, Brunswick Point, Cooper’s Hawk, Dunlin, Eurasian Wigeon, Lincoln’s Sparrow, Long-billed Dowitcher, Mute Swan, Northern Harrier, Northern Shrike, Pelagic Cormorant, Peregrine Falcon, Red-breasted Merganser, Ring-necked Pheasant, River Otter, Short-eared Owl, Trumpeter Swan, Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway, Western Meadowlark, Western Sandpiper

• DNCB Outing No. 2016-29 to Iona & Manning Park

  Report A:  Iona Regional Park Only four of us, Roger, Mike, Chris and I, went to Iona Regional Park last Wednesday while several others (Kirsten, Marion & Jean, plus Pat & Maureen, Manli & Liz) spent the day at Manning Park.  Check out the photo evidence on our DNCB Picasa site.  Kirsten’s Manning Park report

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  July 20, 2016

  *DNCB, *EC Manning Park, American Three-Toed Woodpecker, Barrow’s Goldeneye, Beaver Lodge Wetlands, Blackwall peak, Chipping Sparrow, Clark’s Nutcracker, Columbian Ground Squirrel, Douglas Squirrel, Gray Jay, Hermit Thrush, Iona Beach Regional Park, Least Sandpiper, Merlin, Mule Deer, Pectoral Sandpiper, Pied-billed Grebe, Purple Martin, Semi-palmated Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Spruce Bay Beach, Strawberry Flats, Western Sandpiper, Yellow-pine Chipmunk, Yellow-rumped Warbler

• DNCB Outing No. 2011-18 to Brunswick Point

  On a sunny, but chilly, Wednesday morning a small turnout at Petra’s including Mike, Hans, Marg, Rick, Roger and Deborah (taking a day off work to be with us) met to decide on the days birding adventure.  Tom, however, had left instructions that we were to go to Brunswick Point where, he said, curlews were

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  May 4, 2011

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Brunswick Point, Dunlin, Northern Harrier, Sandhill Crane, Western Sandpiper, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler