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The pastures on the east side of the road can yield sparrows and Black Phoebe. Where the creek empties in the ocean can have large gull and shorebird flocks. Scanning the harbor is an excellent place to view waterfowl, loon, and grebes. A female K...
This beautiful, rocky intertidal habitat attracts Harlequin Duck, Black Oystercatcher, Pigeon Guillemot, Surfbird, Black Turnstone, and Black, Surf and White-winged Scoter, and an occasional Rock Sandpiper. From the viewing deck watc...
The boat basin is a good place to get good looks at Brown Pelican, loons, grebes, gulls and other waterfowl such as Long-tailed Duck. Walking on the trail you might hear a Pileated Woodpecker. A Magnificent Frigatebird was found he...
Large flocks of Gulls, shorebirds, Grebes, and sea ducks, can be found in the bay and around the docks. Some species to watch for include Clark’s Grebe, Brant, Harlequin Duck, and Eurasian Wigeon. This is where a Brown Booby stayed in the ...
The beautiful gardens here attract Golden-crowned Kinglet, Cedar Waxwing, White-Crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, spring warblers and Violet-green and Barn Swallow. Scanning from the coastline trails you might see Black, Surf and White-win...
Walking through the woodlands you may find woodpeckers, wrens, Wrentit, Bandtailed Pigeon, Mourning Dove, Spotted Towhee, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Song Sparrow, Violet-green Swallow, Rufous Hummingbird, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Red Crossb...
Several species of gulls can be found on the beach here. A network of hiking trails up to Cape Arago has forest species such as woodpecker, wrens and sparrows as well as views of cliffs and rocks supporting Oystercatchers and Turnstones. In wint...