Coos County

As you travel along the boat basin and old docks, watch for resting shorebirds and waders, gull wads, loons, pelicans and the like.  Behind the Coast Guard facility and heading west check for roosting “rockpipers” at high tide. Look f...

After stopping at the main office of this public golf course for a trail map, you can look for Raptors perching on the powerlines and snags: watch for White-tailed Kite, American Kestrel, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, and Red-shouldered Hawk. You will...

This area has fresh and saltwater marshes.  Regularly seen raptors include Peregrine Falcon, Merlin, Bald Eagle, White-tailed Kite, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned, Cooper’s, Red-shouldered, and Red-tailed Hawk. Winter songbirds include Black P...

This expansive, tide dependent saltwater marsh is within the Coquille River Estuary.  It is a stop over for migrating shorebirds, with peaks in April and May, and early September.  It has been less productive in recent years, however, look for B...

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 1.2 mi walking trail includes lake, shorepine forest, deflation plains and sand dunes.  A wide variety of freshwater ducks can be seen on the lake. Habitat around the lake attracts White-tailed Kite, Northern Harrier, Violet-green Swallow, D...

This lake is good for ducks, grebes, swallows and herons.  Walking out on the dock or taking a boat/kayak increases your view of the lake.  The trees around the parking lot and the lake have warblers, grosbeaks, nuthatches, woodpeckers and rapto...

This State Park has a trail system that ends at the South Jetty of the Coquille River, passing through woods, deflation plains, and views of the river.  Look along the Coquille River for Pelagic, Brandt’s, and Double-crested Cormorant and Ospre...

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...

The pond and the cattail marsh have some common dabbler ducks, Hooded Mergansers, Pied-billed Grebe, rails, passerines, and swallows. Around the parking lot, look for sparrows, passerines and raptors. Before China Creek empties into ...

A small number of Willits winter in the bay here,  and scope the exposed mudflats for shorebirds and deeper channels for water birds. At Mingus Park check the domestic waterfowl for wild birds such as scaup and wigeon. Gulls are tame here and off...