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HABITAT:	Private beach, river mouth, freshwater wetlands, riparian shrubs.
BIRDING:	Fall-winter, THE place for roosting Thayer’s Gulls. And more gulls: Herring, Western, California, Ring-billed, Glaucous-winged, Glaucous. Offshore, find Common, Pacific and Red-throated Loons; Red-necked, Eared, and Western Grebes; Com¬mon and Barrow’s Goldeneyes. Year-round, watch Harlequin Ducks; Common and Red-breasted Mergansers; Black, Surf, and White-winged Scoters; Greater Scaups. Check pond for Pied-billed Grebes, Lesser Scaups, Gadwalls, Hooded Mergansers. In spring, hear Yellow Warblers, Warbling Vireos, Black-capped Chickadees.
VIEWING:	2 posts mark start of 0.2-mile beach trail. At first Y in trail bear left to dike, ponds, beach.
ACCESS:	From Hwy 112 at milepost 58.9, turn north onto Place Rd. Drive 1.8 miles. Turn right at Dike Access sign. Drive 0.1 mile, park on right.

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