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HABITAT:	USFWS/WDFW 4,000-acre delta, salt/freshwater wetlands, forest.
BIRDING:	Every season wonderful! Spring foliage shelters Western Tanagers, Pacific-slope and Willow Flycatchers, and warblers – Wilson’s, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned, and Black-throated Gray. Find Spotted Towhees in brush, Rufous Hummingbirds in wildflowers. Meadows attract Song and Savannah Sparrows, Short-eared Owls, Northern Harriers. Year-round, check for Great Horned Owls, wetlands for American Bitterns, Virginia Rails. Winter fields host Northern Shrikes. Freshwater ponds sustain 6,000+ waterfowl: Northern Pintails, Green-winged Teals, American and some Eurasian Wigeons, Canada and Cackling Geese; plus raptors: Peregrine Falcons, Merlins, Bald Eagles.
VIEWING:	Walk 1.1-mile ADA Twin Barns Loop, or 5.5-mile Brown Farm Loop on outer dike (closed: hunting season Oct-Jan)
ACCESS:	From I-5, take exit 114 (Nisqually). Turn north onto Nisqually Cut-off Rd. Drive 0.1 mile. Turn right (east) into Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. Drive 0.5 mile to parking areas.
MORE BIRDING:	From I-5, take exit 114 (Nisqually). Drive southwest on Martin Wy 1.1 miles. Turn right (north) onto Meridian Rd. Drive 0.4 mile. At roundabout, exit right (east) onto Meridian Rd NE. Drive 2 miles. Turn right (east) onto 46th Ave NE. Drive 0.2 mile. Turn left (north) onto D’Milluhr Dr NE. Drive 0.5 mile to boat landing, park. Aug-Nov, scope mudflats for Brants, Dunlins, Greater Yellowlegs, Least and Western Sandpipers, Short- and Long-billed Dowitchers; and waters for Rhinoceros Auklets, Common Murres, Marbled Murrelets, Red-throated and Common Loons, Eared and Horned Grebes; Surf and White-winged Scoters. (Caution: Hunting season Oct-Jan.)

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