| Kah Tai Lagoon Park | |||
HABITAT: |
Municipal 80 acres with brackish wetland, mixed deciduous/conifer groves, grasslands. | ||
| BIRDING: | Spring boasts singers: Yellow-rumped, Wilson’s, Orange-crowned, and Yellow Warblers; Hermit Thrushes, Western Tanagers; plus paddlers: Ruddy Ducks, Hooded Mergansers, Green-winged Teals, Gadwalls. Summer features swallows: Barn, Violet-Green, Tree, Cliff, Rough-winged, Purple Martins. Along trails, find Common Nighthawks, Cedar Waxwings, American Goldfinch, Bushtits, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Rufous Hummingbirds. Wintertime, check for Least and Western Sandpipers, Short-Billed Dowitchers, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs. Cooper’s Hawks hunt year-round. | ||
VIEWING: |
Follow 0.2-mile trail south by lagoon, cross footbridge, take 0.7-mile loop through meadow. | ||
| ACCESS: | From Hwy 20 at milepost 11.5 in city of Port Townsend, turn north onto Haines Pl. Drive 0.1 mile. Turn right (east) onto 12th St. Drive 1 block. Turn left (north) into parking lot. | ||
| MORE BIRDING : | From Hwy 20 at milepost 11.5 in city of Port Townsend, turn south onto Haines Pl. Drive 0.1 mile, veering right at stop sign. Park by Building-15 (restrooms). ADA trail extends 1.0 mile west. Bluff has Barn Owl burrow. Check shrubs for Song, Fox, Golden-crowned, White-crowned, Savannah, Lincoln’s Sparrows. Sanderlings, Black-bellied Plovers, Black Turnstones, Dunlins frequent winter waterfront. | ||