Reifel Bird Sanctuary Field Trip

We’re off to one of the top bird sanctuaries in all of Canada and winter is by far the best time to be there. Come explore 300 hectares of ponds, trails, dykes, wetlands and marshes in the Fraser River Estuary. Nearly 300 species of birds have been identified at the reserve and you never know what you’ll see!

Last year, in the same week, visitors saw great horned, short-eared and saw-whet owls, an evening grosbeak, a bittern, a northern shrike, a peregrine falcon and 58 other species.

We’ll catch an early ferry from Pender – making for a great bird-watching platform as we sail through Active Pass and across the Salish Sea, and return on the early evening boat to arrive back home by 8:30 pm. If we get time after Reifel, we can check out Boundary Bay and even Blackie Spit.