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Accomodations
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Brookside Inn is a beautiful 3 story Tudor boutique hotel with wonderfully landscaped yards that caters to birders. There are multiple feeders of all different kinds throughout the property. The breakfast has no comparison and the rooms are wonderful.
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Meadow Lake Guest Ranch is a beautifully set on over 700 acres with many lakes and ponds, forests and meadows dotting the landscape. Some of these small bodies of water are alkaline and some fresh with marshland and shallows attracting all manor of birds.
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General Resources
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An excellent resource for bird watching in British Columbia, including news, sightings, classifieds, tours, and conservation
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The Southern Interior Bluebird Trail Society (SIBTS) is a non-profit volunteer organization, formed to promote recovery of Mountain and Western Bluebirds.
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A place to find trails and birding locations around BC, not to mention a few gift ideas.
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Hotspots
Vancouver
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A Blogger as well as excellent location descriptions for Maplewood and Ambleside Park
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There are two areas that are very productive here. One is the pond network and the other is the Jetty. The ponds are very good for wintering waterfowl and shorebirds when the tide is up. The jetty is great for viewing seagoing water fowl well out into Georgia Strait.
Notable Species: Caspian Tern, Osprey, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Tufted Duck, Purple Martin |
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The Pitt-Addington Marsh WMA supports over 200 bird and 29 mammal species. The area provides important wintering, migration and breeding habitat for waterfowl, shorebirds, raptors, passerine and upland species.
Notable Species: Sandhill Crane, Gray Catbird, American Redstart, Bohemian Waxwing, Band-tailed Pigeon |
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Winter home of the Snow Geese and one of Canada's top birdwatching sites
Notable Species: Sandhill Crane, Great Horned Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Snow Geese, Black-crowned Night-heron |
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Blackie Spit is one of the best bird watching areas in Canada with almost 200 species of birds recorded in a calendar year
Notable Species: Long-billed Curlew, Marbled Godwit, Purple Martin |
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Stanley Park is a bird lover’s paradise. Situated on the edge of Vancouver, this magnificent park can be conveniently accessed by visitors by bus, car or on foot from downtown. Over the course of a year, as many as 230 species of birds are easily viewed and heard in its diverse landscape of forests, wetlands and seashore.
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Winter sea birds at your feet including all three scoters and all three loons. The walk is the one of the best in the south of Surrey for winter and migrant water birds.
Notable Species: All Three Scoters, All three Loon Species, Black Turnstone |
Victoria
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The old train trestle runs through the middle of the lake as the Lochside Trail. The lake and the trail are full of birds with several habitats in close proximity.
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Rare Bird Alerts
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The location for sharing reports of rare birds in Vancouver & the Fraser Valley
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Tours and Guides
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Personally Guided and Custom Tours for Vancouver and surrounding areas
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