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The only comprehensive           
guide to the birds, animals       
and plants of Boundary Bay      
area, includes Fraser River      
estuary, Burns Bog, BC,            
Canada & Whatcom Co. WA,      
USA.
Nature Guides B.C.
Soft cover  6" x 9".  224 pp.  
170 colour photographs,
Price $24.95 Can./$20.95US
ISBN 978-0 - 9780088-0-4
Published 2006
Boundary Bay Nature News
May 2008 update

A LARGE FLOCK OF PACIFIC LOONS was feeding off
Roberts Bank/Point Roberts in the last week, together with
a group of Harbour Porpoises, dozens of Pelagic and
Double-crested Cormorant, Surf Scoter and a few Harlequin
Duck. At low tide, 40 black Brant stopped by to feed on the
gravelly tip of Lighthouse Park beach.
WILSON'S WARBLERS are among the neotropical songbirds
migrating through the area in the last week - these small,
bright yellow birds, with black capped heads, can be seen
flitting around in the leafy canopy of deciduous trees and
shrubs.

Earlier in the month, WESTERN SANDPIPERS passed
through Boundary Bay. Several hundred were seen in the
Beach Grove lagoon just after high tide May 5, together
with a small group of Least Sandpiper and 2 Semipalmated
Plovers. The Western Sandpipers were showing a lot of
rufous colouration on their heads and shoulders as they
prepare for the nesting season. Their legs are black and
both their legs and bills are longer than those of the Least
Sandpiper. This smallest of the peeps has yellow legs and a
crouching posture. They often feed among the vegetation
at the edge of the mudflats.
Semi-palmated Plovers look a bit like mini-killdeer. They
migrate through in smaller numbers than the sandpipers.
Other shorebirds in the area include Greater Yellowlegs,
Black-bellied Plovers and Dunlin.

Coming Events:

Anne will be selling books at coffee break during the
12th June meeting of the White Rock & Surrey
Naturalists, in South Surrey, 7.30 pm.
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LILY POINT HAS BEEN SAVED!
It will be protected as a park in perpetuity  Whatcom
Land Trust has been successful in efforts to protect
this priceless habitat and shoreline in Point Roberts as
a park. Thanks to all the donors and to the Whatcom
Land Trust and The Land Conservancy of BC for this
valuable initiative.  

Check out the comprehensive plant species lists for
Boundary Bay nature destinations,compiled by noted
botanist and birder, Wayne Weber. See more >>>  

Go to the Nature Guide to Boundary Bay Annex Site for
species lists of Bird, Mammal, Plant, Reptile,
Amphibian, Fish, insects, fungi... found in the Boundary
Bay area.

Click here for links to local nature Organizations

BC Breeding Bird Atlas online: get atlassing
today! more info>>>


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Boundary Bay - Walks, talks and fun family
activities.              
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The Atlas covers the whole
Boundary Bay watershed and
looks in detail at ecology,
habitats, wildlife and other natural
features. Maps supplied by
Community Mapping Network
Fully illustrated in colour
Soft cover 17" x 11"  spiral
bound, 89 pages; Price $75
ISBN 978-0-9780088-1-9
Published by Nature Guides BC
on behalf of
Friends of Semiahmoo Bay
Society and Community
Mapping Network
Published May 2007

by Friends of Semiahmoo
Bay Society & Community
Mapping Network
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BOUNDARY BAY - FRASER RIVER ESTUARY, BC & WA STATE
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Tracing Our Past
~ A Heritage Guide to
Boundary Bay

by Anne Murray,
photographs by David Blevins



















The story of a landscape
and the people that
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Soft cover 6" x 9", 240 pp.
Fully illustrated: 90 colour photographs, 47
sepia photographs/drawings, 8 maps.
Price Can./US $27.95
ISBN 978-0-9780088-2-6
Published 2008
Popular local wildlife guide:

A Nature Guide to Boundary Bay

by Anne Murray,  photographs by David Blevins
Georgia Basin Habitat Atlas:
Boundary Bay
A Nature Guide to Boundary Bay

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Tracing Our Past ~ A
Heritage Guide to
Boundary Bay

An ecological history of
the landscape around
Boundary Bay, south of
the Fraser River, in SW
British Columbia and
Northern Washington
State.
Listen to the author in
interview with Mark
Forsythe on CBC Radio
Almanac (see Openline
Archive 12/05/08)

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"Well-researched, well written, and
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missed by anyone with an interest in
how this area got to be the way it is"  -
Historian Derek Hayes