Delta Naturalists Society

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• DNS Merritt Field Trip, May 25-29, 2025

  The Nicola Valley and surrounding areas comprise a rich diversity of ecosystems, including moist and dry forests, grasslands, sagebrush, alpine meadows, and many types of wetlands. Several rare and threatened species occur in the area. For this reason—and the timing of the spring migration—a group of 27 Delta Naturalists decided to visit the Nicola Valley

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  May 31, 2025

  *DNCB

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• Delta Naturalists Outing to Reifel Bird Sanctuary, January 12, 2025

  PHOTO: Northern Shovelers by Brian Avent…. Nineteen Delta Naturalists showed up for our first weekend outing of the year, which rewarded our decision to pry ourselves from our beds on a rainy Sunday morning with a total of 47 species—including two owls—and sunshine for most of our meander around the sanctuary! As usual, we began

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  January 12, 2025

  *DNCB, Bald Eagle, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Cooper’s Hawk, Gadwall, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Great Horned Owl, Hooded Merganser, Northern Harrier, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Pied-billed Grebe, Purple Finch, Ring-necked Duck, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Ruddy Duck, Sandhill Crane, Trumpeter Swan, Wood Duck

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• Delta Naturalists Fieldtrip to Stanley Park: Sea Birds & Sea Lions, on Dec 20, 2023

  PHOTO: Barrow’s Goldeneye by Terry Carr…….. The sun may have been firmly behind the clouds but the weather was truly fine—mild and not a breath of wind—for a Wednesday outing to Stanley Park. Eight Delta Nats Thea, Terry, Nicki, Christine, Colin, Stephanie, Pat, and Manli met on the seawall below the Second Beach pool, where a

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  Delta Naturalists Society

  December 20, 2023

  *DNS, *Vancouver, Bald Eagle, Barrow’s Goldeneye, Beaver Lake, Brown Creeper, California Sea Lion, Cooper’s Hawk, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Hooded Merganser, Horned Grebe, Lost Lagoon, Mew Gull, Pacific Wren, Pelagic Cormorant, Red-breasted Merganser, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Ruddy Duck, Second Beach, Short-billed Gull, Stanley Park, Wood Duck

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