Taft Waterfront Park
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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-Alder Island Unit
- Lincoln City Sewage Ponds
- Josephine Young Park
- Siletz Bay
- D River State Recreational Site
- Drift Creek Meadows at Gorton Road
- Roads End State Recreation Site
- Knight Park
- East Devil's Lake State Park
- Drift Creek Falls
- Salishan Nature Trails
- Devil's Lake State Park
- Salmon River Estuary
- Kernville/Siletz River - Cannery Slough
- Spring Lake Open Space
- Millport Slough
- Lincoln City 15th Street Beach Access Rocks
- Rock Creek Marsh
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