Category: Virginia Rail
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-44B to Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway & Reifel, November 3, 2021
Eight of us arrived at Reifel just after the gates opened. Noreen and I were the only ones at the Ferry Causeway at 8AM where spitting rain was coming to an end but winds out of the SE were brisk. There were 17 species, including Pelagic and Double-crested Cormorants, Horned Grebe, and hundreds of European…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-41B to Ladner Harbour Park and Boundary Bay Dyke at 104th, October 13, 2021
A small contingent of 6 (Pat, Manli, Lidia, Gabriel, Noreen & David) started at the parking lot and walked the road to the start of the Shirley Trail checking the slough for Roger’s Pied-billed Grebe from Tuesday that had been there as we drove in. It was hidden, but Mallards, a Great Blue Heron, and…
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DNCB Outing No. 2021-39A to Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway & Reifel on September 28, 2021
The Tuesday people were lucky with the weather. Despite a wet forecast, the rain stopped before 7am. It was windy and cold when 5 of us met on the Tsawwassen ferry causeway at 7:45. But the wind had died down and the sky was clearing when 14 met at the Reifel Bird Sanctuary at 9am.…
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DNCB Outing No. 2018-52 Ladner Christmas Bird Count
Some Delta Nats took part in the Ladner Christmas Bird Count on December 22. The cold windy weather resulted in a lower than usual count in nearly all the count areas. At least the rain held off. Counts are carried out within a 24-km diameter circle that stays the same from year to year. The…
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DNCB Outing 2018-51 to Tsawwassen Ferry Port and Reifel Bird Sanctuary
Fourteen brave souls endured a surprisingly dry and very birdy Tuesday morning along the Tsawwassen Ferry causeway and then at our “Mecca”, Reifel Bird Sanctuary. Check out/click on the photo evidence of some rare and gorgeous sightings on our DNCB Flickr site. Because of the rainy forecast, on Monday we changed Tuesday’s outing destination from…
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DNCB Outing No. 2017-13 to Iona Regional Park
More photos at our DNCB Flickr site Twelve crazy birders braved the rain, again for the 5th consecutive outing, on a surprisingly very successful outing to Iona Regional Park. Check out the photo evidence of Wednesday’s outing on our Flickr site at: www.flickr.com/groups/dncb, then click the magnifying glass icon in the “Photo Pool” row, and…
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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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DNCB Outing No. 2017-02 to Iona Regional Park
Photos by Terry Carr (TC), Brian Avent (BA), Pat Smart (PS), Liz Stewart (LS), Chris McVittie (CMcV), Maureen Sinilaid (MS), Roger Meyer (RM) more photos at our DNCB Flickr site Twelve DNCBers enjoyed a cool but dry, sunny and very pleasant Tuesday morning at another prominent birding spot in the Lower BC Mainland, Iona Regional…
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-11 to Serpentine Fen
More photos from DNCB Picasa site will be added soon! Another massive crowd of 29 DNCBers (named at and) toured Serpentine Wildlife Management Area (SWMA) in Surrey on a pleasant Tuesday morning. It was a another spread-out, gabfest, but we got lots of neat sightings. Check out the beaut photo evidence, including shots of birds,…
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DNCB Outing No. 2016-8 to Alaksen NWA and Reifel Bird Sanctuary
Photos from the DNCB Picasa site by Pascale & Alberto (P&A), Brian (BA), Roger (RM), Terry Carr (TC), Glen (GB), Marion (MS), & Pat (PS) A huge crowd of 30 DNCBers enjoyed a beautiful, sunny and mild Tuesday morning of birding at our “Mecca”, the Alaksen National Wildlife Area (NWA) and Reifel Bird Sanctuary. We…
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