Birding by Bike

You can’t get to the Reifel Bird Sanctuary, Iona Island or Boundary Bay by public transit alone. The reason is, these places are home for birds, and birds don’t take public transit. Why Nature Vancouver, which organizes birding trips, rarely coordinate car pooling, is an open question (but see comment).

The significance of the Birding by Bike trip at Boundary Bay was not by the bird species (my count was 37 species including an Eurasian Collared-Dove for a life bird) I encountered, but by the revelation that I can get places that are at the edge of the known earth (well, almost…) with my trusted pair of bicycle combined with public transit. And I can stay there the whole day! Birds, here I come!

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2 Comments

  1. Nature Vancouver field trip leaders are asked to suggest a carpool location for every trip they lead. However some (many)leaders do not live in Vancouver and can not be present at the car poll location. If no one with a car stops there, then the ones without a car are left stranded. This has happened in the past.

    Regardless, we do try to arrange carpools whenever we can.

  2. Sigal

    Hi Kelly,
    Thanks for the info!
    It would be helpful if the callout for every trip would contain the phrase…
    “If you need to carpool or can provide a ride, please contact the trip leader”
    Like Julian mentioned for the January 16th trip.

    Cheers,
    Sigal

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