Coquille River/South Jetty
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Location
Go to the Oregon Birding Trails Website. Choose the Oregon Coast Birding Trail. Click on the South Coast tab and go to section 118. From Hwy 101 in Bandon, turn N at stoplight onto Fillmore, drive 1 block and turn L onto First St. Drive 0.5mi, turn R onto Jetty Rd, and drive 0.6 mi to gravel parking lot at end of the road.
DirectionsHabitat and Birds
Between the Jetties, watch for Surf, Black and White-winged Scoter, Common and Pacific Loon, Pelagic, Brandt’s, and Double-crested Cormorant, Brown Pelican, and Harlequin Duck. During migration walk east from the parking lot at low tide and scan the exposed rocks for migrant Wandering Tattler, Rock Sandpiper, Ruddy and Black Turnstone, Sanderling, Western and Least Sandpiper, and Surfbird. Along the beach watch for gulls, sandpipers, and plovers. Oystercatchers are regular here, watch for Peregrine Falcon strafing the shorebirds.
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