Blog – Nature Vancouver

NatureKIDS BC

Saturday, September 14, 2019 Kelly Sekhon

NatureKIDS BC is THE club for children and families who love to be outdoors. Members discover nature on Explorer Days organized by volunteer leaders and guided by experts, participate in stewardship projects, earn Action Awards and receive NatureWILD magazine 4 times a year. Family membership: $35 per year. Individual adult membership:$25 per year. Or subscribe to NatureWILD magazine: $20 for 4 issues per year. For more information and to sign up online go to: https://www.naturekidsbc.ca/about-us/

Contest Winner. Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives photo contest

Thursday, September 12, 2019 Elena K

I think nature always tells the truth and how a person views nature and shares it with others tells the truth of that person’s character. – William Winslowhansen William Winslowhansen is the winner of the recent photo contest administered by the Museum of Vancouver. This contest is part of the Nature Vancouver co-produced exhibition Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives that closes on Sept 29th, 2019. Among the several photos submitted by William is this rare image…

Read More Read More

Hollyburn Peak

Saturday, August 31, 2019 Kelly Sekhon

A joint trip with Friends of Cypress Provincial Park – Aug 30, 2019 Trip Report by leader Lyn Grants Twelve participants were not daunted by the mist and light rain and, of course, all made it to the peak-alas to curtains of mist which completely obscured the views. Many whiskey jacks (Canada Jays) flew in immediately to join and entertain us. Entertained as we were, we were also alarmed to learn that their food caches are not “refrigerated” as they…

Read More Read More

2019 Summer Camp – Niut Lakes

Friday, August 30, 2019 nataliap

The 2019 Nature Vancouver summer camps were held in the spectacular Niut Range, just to the west of Tatlayoko Lake, or two hundred kilometres west of Williams Lake. Located at the tree line at 2000 metres, the camps offered abundant opportunities for botanizing, birding and rambling ranging from easy strolls to more vigorous all-day hikes. The first camp ran from July 21st to 28th with the second camp running from July 28th to August 4th. Camp managers were Nigel Peck for week one…

Read More Read More

Shorebirding at Boundary Bay August 27th

Thursday, August 29, 2019 Tom Plath

Unseasonable warm weather and a lingering high pressure system likely resulted in a paucity of migrating shorebirds. A walk to the 112th Street pump station from the foot of 104th during the rising tide did not produce the masses of shorebirds expected. At 112th Street were 1,000’s of dabbling ducks mainly Northern Pintail with smaller numbers of Mallard, Green-winged Teal and American Wigeon. At the tip were four Caspian Terns roosting with 20+ Ring-billed Gulls. Shorebirds were limited to four…

Read More Read More

Reifel Refuge Birding Field Trip Report Aug 24th

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Tom Plath

The eight participants that showed up on Saturday afternoon were rewarded with a couple of rarities lingering at Reifel Bird Sanctuary. Robertson slough along the entrance road hosted a Great Egret a rare visitor to the Delta. Shorebirding was good with three Stilt Sandpipers in amongst the dozens of Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and both dowitchers at the “house pond”. The former species is an annual but scarce visitor in late August /early September. An obliging dark Great Horned Owl…

Read More Read More

Langdale Falls 🌿 2019-08-11 – Trip Report

Monday, August 12, 2019 Denis Laplante

Four Nature Vancouver members walked on the 9:55 ferry to Langdale and had a lovely hike around Langdale Falls and Sidewinder trail. The drizzle stopped around 1pm – the damp weather made for shiny leaves and especially vibrant colours . The woods are varied and beautiful, the abundance and variety of beautiful, colourful large mushroom was an unexpected bonus for an August trip, and we’ve never seen so many Indian Pipe! We opted to do the route in a clockwise…

Read More Read More

Yew Lake / Bowen Lookout Discovery Walk – 5 August 2019

Friday, August 9, 2019 Kelly Sekhon

Joint Trip with Friends of Cypress Provincial Park Trip Report by Jane Srivastava On a sunny, hot BC Day, Gail Ross, former Park Ranger, led ten curious walkers, ranging in age from their 3rd decade to their 9th (and including a special visitor from Laos) on a leisurely walk / hike through this beautiful area. We were introduced to giant, ancient trees and miniscule sundew, fringed grass of Parnassus and green bog orchid in the meadows, coral root in the old…

Read More Read More

A Tour Through Black Bear Country – 1 August 2019

Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Kelly Sekhon

A joint field trip with the North Shore Black Bear Society Trip Report by Leader David Cook Seventeen members walked in a section of forest in Lynn Canyon Park where bears have been foraging for insects in rotten logs. We also looked at a den, possibly of coyotes. We left the forest and crossed Lillooet Road into the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve and walked the Richard Juren trail beneath Hydro lines where there were good crops of fruit-bearing plants and…

Read More Read More

Geology of Caulfeild Park and the coastline of Burrard Inlet -30 July 2019

Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Kelly Sekhon

Trip Report by Leader David Cook Sixteen members attended this walkabout of the rocky bluffs of Caulfeild Park, West Vancouver. It was a joint event for Nature Vancouver and the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society. The weather was perfect which allowed easy walking over the smoothed rocky bluffs which would have been slippery if it had been raining. This location shows us a beautiful example of an intrusion breccia and illustrates, frozen in time, how the granitoid rocks of the North…

Read More Read More