Taft Waterfront Park
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Location
Taft Waterfront Park is in southern Lincoln City where Siletz Bay meets the Pacific. To access it from Highway 101 go west on SW 51st Street to the parking area at the end of the street.
Go to the Oregon Birding Trail Website. Choose the Oregon Coast Birding Trail. Click on the Central Coast tab and go to section 50.
DirectionsHabitat and Birds
Check Salishan Spit for Western, Glaucous-winged, Thayer’s, Herring, California, Ring-billed, or Heermann’s Gulls. Caspian Terns are pretty common here as well in summer. In the bay look for Common, Pacific, and Red-throated Loons (Yellow-billed has been seen here as well) along with Horned and Red-necked Grebes from fall through spring.
Nearby Birding Locations
- Siletz Bay
- Lincoln City 15th Street Beach Access Rocks
- Spring Lake Open Space
- Rock Creek Marsh
- D River State Recreational Site
- Siletz Bay-Alder Island Unit
- Knight Park
- Salmon River Estuary
- Devil's Lake State Park
- Lincoln City Sewage Ponds
- East Devil's Lake State Park
- Roads End State Recreation Site
- Kernville/Siletz River - Cannery Slough
- Josephine Young Park
- Drift Creek Meadows at Gorton Road
- Millport Slough
- Salishan Nature Trails
- Drift Creek Falls
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