| John Wayne Marina | |||
HABITAT: |
Port breakwater; estuary, creek mouth, Sequim Bay. | ||
| BIRDING: | Late-winter to summer, see great flocks of Pigeon Guillemots with Marbled Murrelets on fringes. Most species present year-round, though birds most numerous in winter: Pacific, Common, and occasional Yellow-billed Loons; Common Murres, Horned and Red-necked Grebes, Long-tailed Ducks, Common and Barrow’s Goldeneyes, Hooded Mergansers. Spring-summer, Rhinoceros Auklets feed in bay. Fall-spring, check breakwater for Black-bellied Plovers, Sanderlings, Dunlins. | ||
VIEWING: |
Best at rising/falling tide. Scan bay, breakwater. From south parking fall-winter, view creek mouth for Black Oystercatchers, and numerous gull species including Bonaparte’s, and Mew, with Heermann’s only in winter. | ||
| ACCESS: | From Hwy 101 at milepost 262.2, turn north onto Whitefeather Wy. Drive 0.6 mile. Turn left (north) onto W Sequim Bay Rd. Drive 0.1 mile. Turn right into south parking lot; walk/drive 0.2 mile to north lot. | ||