BANDON AREA 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...

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...

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 ...

There is a walk way along the river here, with nice diversity of river ducks,  wrens and flycatchers, with the occasional Green Heron.  Wooded areas around the town attract Tanager, raptors, and woodpeckers.  Around town you will find Cooper...

Access the beach and check out the rocks for Harlequin Duck, Rock Sandpiper, Black Oystercatcher and  nesting Common Murre and Pelagic Cormorants.  Listen and look for Black Turnstone (winter).  Watch for migrating shorebirds in Spring and Fall...

This driving route follows the Coquille River, traversing flooded pastures and small wetlands dense with alder and willow. Use pullouts along the road to scan the river and surrounding flooded pastures for thousands of wintering waterfowl includin...

Between the Jetties, watch for Surf, Black and White-winged Scoter, Common and Pacific Loon, Pelagic, Brandt’s, and Double-crested Cormorant, Brown Pelican, and Harlequin Duck.  During migration walk east from the parking lot at low tide and sc...

From the Face Rock Viewpoint you can see the area’s most famous offshore rock, which resembles a face gazing skyward. Nearby are a series of islands called “Cat and Kittens,” part of Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.

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