Go Birdwatching
Five places to spot birds around the fjord With a majestic and varied landscape as a background for your birding endeavors, Hood Canal is a gorgeous place to come search for the over 250 species that call the Olympic Peninsula home. 1. Theler Wetlands belfair
135-acre preserve on Hood Canal, marshes, forested wetlands, river estuary. Fall, listen for Golden-crowned Kinglets; Bewick’s, Marsh, and Winter Wrens. Birds of prey in the air: Bald Eagles, Ospreys, Red-Tailed Hawks, Short-eared Owls. Winter brings Northern Shrikes to meadows. 2. Potlatch State Park Skokomish
57-acre park; Hood Canal saltwater shoreline and mixed forest. Birding: Fall-spring, high tide offers best waterfowl birding.
Common Loons, Surf Scoters, Greater Scaups, Goldeneyes, Buffleheads, Mergansers, and Grebes. 3.Oakland Bay
Shelton
WDFW viewpoint on bay, mudflats, fringe of evergreen trees. Duck viewing: Northern Pintails, Mergansers, American and Eurasian Wigeons, Buffleheads, Goldeneyes, Surf and White-winged Scoters, Gadwalls, Green-winged Teals. See Opreys spring-fall, Dunlins in winter. Common Ravens, and Bald Eagles visit year-round.
4. Twanoh State Park Union
182-acre park, shoreline, conifer forest. Birding: Loons, Marbled Murrelets, Grebes, Surf and White-winged Scoters, Goldeneyes, Red-breasted Mergansers, Buffleheads, Greater Scaups, Ruddy Ducks. Jarrell Cove State Park Harstine Island
43-acre forested shoreline, saltwater bay. On rising tide, see Surf Scoters, Goldeneyes, Red-breasted Mergansers, Common, Pacific, and Red-throated Loons.
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