Scappoose Waste Treatment Pond and Kessi Pond
Seasons
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
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Location
A parking area is located next to a pretty useless observation platform 1.0 miles east of Hwy 30 on Columbia Ave.
DirectionsHabitat and Birds
The pond to the north is marshier than Kessi pond to the south. It tends to hold a different set of birds. This area is good for ducks, geese and swans in the winter, and Green Herons are regular in the spring. Rarities include Black Pheobe and American Tree Sparrow. The area is pretty good for migrant and breeding passerines in the willows and cottonwoods along the road. The cottonwoods have hosted most of the woodpeckers. Kessi pond is getting harder to scan as vegetation grows in along the road. Great Horned Owls have nested in the woods to the north.
Nearby Birding Locations
- Sauvie Island – Gilbert Boat Ramp
- Sauvie Island - Steelman Rd
- Sauvie Island (General Info)
- Sauvie Island – Collin’s Beach
- Sauvie Island – Willow Bar
- Sauvie Island – Rentenaar Point
- Sauvie Island – Rentenaar Rd
- Crown Zellerbach Trail – East End (OBT)
- Sauvie Island – Walton Beach
- Crown Zellerbach Trail – West End (OBT)
- Sauvie Island – Warrior Rock Trail
- Sauvie Island –Observation Platform
- Sauvie Island - The Wash
- Santosh Quarry Lake
- Bonnie Falls
- Scappoose Bottoms Honeyman Road
- Sauvie Island – Racetrack Lake
- Sauvie Island – Oak Island Nature Trail (OBT)
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