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LOOKING AT STATUES, PLAQUES, AND TREES ON VANCOUVER CITY HALL’S GROUNDS

LOOKING AT STATUES, PLAQUES, AND TREES ON VANCOUVER CITY HALL’S GROUNDS

Trip Report by Nina Shoroplova We Nature Vancouver members interested in botany met on the Helen Gutteridge Plaza on Saturday, July 18, to look at the trees on the grounds. We saw a lot more than trees. This ninety-year-old municipal building was completed and opened at Cambie Street and 12th Avenue in November 1936, the city’s golden jubilee year, that is fifty years after Vancouver had been incorporated as a city. And though the handsome building was complete and even…

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TRIP REPORT – TEEN BIRD WALK AT IONA BEACH, JULY 18

TRIP REPORT – TEEN BIRD WALK AT IONA BEACH, JULY 18

By Ly Hoang On a beautiful, post rainy morning, bird life was abundant at Iona. As we were waiting for participants in the parking lot, we saw a big flock of Ring-billed Gulls and a siege of Great Blue Herons. We officially started our teen walk with a land acknowledgement created by Indigenous physician, Dr. Ellie Parton. Dr. Parton encourages us to use our senses, our mindful awareness and intentional spirit to be present with the beauty of nature and…

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OBSERVED SPECIES OF SPECIAL CONCERN, RE: TRIP REPORT JULY 4, 2026, GOLDIE AND FLOWER LAKES

OBSERVED SPECIES OF SPECIAL CONCERN, RE: TRIP REPORT JULY 4, 2026, GOLDIE AND FLOWER LAKES

Trip Report by Vicky Earle Plants and an Insect listed as Rare, Endangered, Special Concern, or Uncommon All observed on trails around Goldie and Flower Lakes, Mount Seymour Provincial Park, during the Nature Vancouver walk July 4th, 2026. The original trip report is posted at Mount Seymour Provincial Park: Goldie and Flower Lakes Nature Walk / bioblitz July 4, 2026 – Nature Vancouver. Nootka Cypress / Yellow Cypress / Yellow Cedar: (Callitropsis nootkatensis) is currently under review for listing as threatened…

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MOUNT SEYMOUR PROVINCIAL PARK: GOLDIE AND FLOWER LAKES NATURE WALK / BIOBLITZ JULY 4, 2026

MOUNT SEYMOUR PROVINCIAL PARK: GOLDIE AND FLOWER LAKES NATURE WALK / BIOBLITZ JULY 4, 2026

Trip report by Bev Ramey Our nature walk around Goldie and Flower Lakes was a rich experience with beautiful, close-up observations of plants, mosses, lichens, birds and generally the nature of this wetland habitat within old growth forest. Also wonderful was the sharing of knowledge amongst the participants. Our walk was slated for three hours, but we took four hours as there were many observation stops along the three km of trails. We’d even had plans to stop for sketching,…

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NATURE VANCOUVER SKETCH GROUP AT TERRA NOVA, JUNE 28, 2026

NATURE VANCOUVER SKETCH GROUP AT TERRA NOVA, JUNE 28, 2026

Trip report by Vicky Earle Seven nature journalers joined trip leaders Vicky and Noriko at Terra Nova Nature Park in Richmond. Gusty winds greeted us at the meeting spot beside the Fraser River, but once we headed onto the trails, we found several sheltered areas to explore. After an introduction and land acknowledgement, Vicky took a quick moment to share journaling prompts and discussed how using three different “languages” on the page (i.e. words, pictures and numbers) is beneficial because…

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CYPRESS BIRD BLITZ, YEW LAKE TRAIL, JUNE 14, 2026 TRIP REPORT

CYPRESS BIRD BLITZ, YEW LAKE TRAIL, JUNE 14, 2026 TRIP REPORT

Trip Report by Joanna Chin The 2026 Cypress Bird Blitz, jointly hosted by Nature Vancouver and Friends of Cypress Provincial Park, marked my second year participating in this annual celebration of birds and biodiversity and my first as a trip leader. Last year, I joined the Yew Lake and Old Growth Forest Trail walk as a participant; this year, Gail Ross invited me to lead the same route. I was delighted to share guiding duties with my friend Catherine Po,…

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WALKING AND TREE-IDENTIFICATION IN NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT – MAY 23, 2026

WALKING AND TREE-IDENTIFICATION IN NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT – MAY 23, 2026

Trip report by Nina Shoroplova If you drive along Dollarton Highway to Dollarton, a neighbourhood in North Vancouver District, and take Dollar Road to its end, you will reach part of Burrard Inlet, with Belcarra across the water to the east and Simon Fraser University campus across the water in the southeast. Little Cates Park is just south of the end of Dollar Road and that is where some of us Nature Vancouver amateur botanists met on May 23 for…

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TREE-IDENTIFICATION WALK IN QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK, MAY 9, 2026

TREE-IDENTIFICATION WALK IN QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK, MAY 9, 2026

Trip report by Nina Shoroplova We tree-identifying botanists met at the Grace McCarthy Plaza in Queen Elizabeth Park, opposite the Bloedel Conservatory, early on Saturday May 9. First we looked at a couple of flowering dogwoods, Cornus florida. They are the ones whose white (or sometimes pink) bracts show the notch at the top, where they pulled apart after protecting the tiny green true flowers. The green leaves have a central vein and arcuate subveins. We set off northeast to…

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TRIP REPORT – DAWN CHORUS AT PIPER SPIT BURNABY LAKE, MAY 30, 2026

TRIP REPORT – DAWN CHORUS AT PIPER SPIT BURNABY LAKE, MAY 30, 2026

The sky was getting brighter by the second as we gathered just before 5am to listen to the dawn chorus. We were just in front of the Nature House at Piper Spit and the birds were in full song. Circling us, three American Robins sang loudly. So loud in fact, it was hard to hear the other birds. Through the din we could hear a Western Warbling Vireo behind us and at least one, perhaps two Song Sparrows and a…

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TRIP REPORT – SOUTH SHORE BURNABY LAKE MAY 31ST

TRIP REPORT – SOUTH SHORE BURNABY LAKE MAY 31ST

The south-west corner of Burnaby Lake is a favourite low-key birding spot for Harvey and Michelle in late May to early June.  The paths near the Burnaby Lake Rowing club attract a good selection of late migrants like Cedar Waxwings, and the boggy ground and resulting open forest means that you have a better chance of seeing birds that you might otherwise only hear. This Saturday was no exception.  After picking up a couple of participants from 29th Street Station,…

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