Arizona Beach Birding

Arizona Beach State Recreation Site. | Photo by Lauren Kay

The Kalmiopsis Audubon chapter is offering a Let's Go Birding excursion. Join trip leader Gary Maschmeyer for this outing to Arizona Beach State Park (between Port Orford and Ophir). The group will look for songbirds in surrounding forests, Virginia Rails and phoebes in the ponds, and for cormorants, grebes and possibly Black Oystercatchers from the beach.

Meet Gary at Gold Beach Visitor Center (94080 Shirley Ln, Gold Beach) at 7:45 a.m., or to carpool from Brookings, meet at the Azalea Middle School parking lot at 505 Pacific Ave at 7 a.m.. People coming from Port Orford should meet the group at the Arizona Beach parking area east of Highway 101 at 8:15 a.m. It’s best to contact Gary and let him know you are coming in case there is any last minute change in plans at gmasch@charter.net