Birding Brunswick Pt, BC

Pre-COVID, I was birding in the Greater Vancouver/Washington State area about 6-weeks per year spread over 2-3 annual trips from Toronto. As such, I am a member of the local Delta Naturalist Casual Birders (DNCB) which was developed by inspirational President, Tom Bearss (RIP). The weekly DNCB outings were either Tuedsay or Wednesday, targetting birding hotspots and ending early afternoon with a social lunch in a convienient pub or facility.

This page is focused on my last outing with Tom before he passed. Delta-Brunswick Point is not a premier birding destination but rather a sample of the depth of birding choice that exists in the area. For birding, access to the Point starts where the northside public road is gated just past the last farm. Once parked, one walks 2.3km along the wide gravel utility road which is effectively on top of the parimeter dyke. Given the dyke arcs around farmland, outgoing birders have a view to their right of first a deep branch of the Fraser River, then a salt marsh, and finally the southside tidal mud flats. To the birder’s left, is a passing view of active farmlands with drainage ditches and pockets of trees & bush. The view is basically open and panaramiic. Birds can be anywhere.

Brunswick Point in Delta, BC.
Part of the Fraser River estuary where it empties into the Salish Sea.

Not only does Brunswick Point offer a complex environment but it is situated near well known birding hotspots: It is south of the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, north of Point Roberts, and west of Boundary Bay.

Forty-six Snow Geese, fly over DNCB.
Brunswick Pt, BC, on Oct 8th 2019 at 1:38pm.

Finally, the image of the Snow Geese was included because it is symbolic of our DNCB outings, a positive sunny day, a flock of club birders with the lead bird being Tom Bearss.

House Finch pair, Brunswick Pt, BC, on Oct 8th 2019. Hiding in an almost bare wild fruit tree, right beside the shoreline.

The End.