Birding On Camano Island

Eide Road:        View Map
Turn south on Eide Rd, just west of the Mark Clark Bridge. Eide Rd follows the levee along the east side of Leque Island. Excellent for wintering sparrows, raptors, short-eared owls, and snow geese. Conservation permit required.

Livingston Bay:        View Map
Turn south on Fox Trot Way to end (0.2 mi). Best at high tide in early morning or late afternoon. Good area for ducks.  

English Boom Historical Preserve:        View Map
Follow Moore Rd to end. Excellent year round. Look for raptors, loons, scoters, ducks, great blue herons, shorebirds in migration, passerines and nesting purple martins (in summer). Bald eagle and osprey nest here. At low tide, seals haul out on exposed sand banks.   

Utsalady Boat Ramp:        View Map
Follow Utsaldy Point Rd to end. Good for deep water birds, such as loons, scoters and goldeneyes.    

Maple Grove Boat Launch:        View Map
Follow Maple Grove Rd to the boat launch. Saratoga Passage is at its narrowest here and the deep channel is close to shore. Loons, Harelquin ducks, cormorants & alcids are possible here.

Kristoferson Beaver Marsh:        View Map
On Can Ku Rd across from the animal shelter. Take a short trail to a platform to look out over the beaver marsh. Good for passerines and hooded merganser.   

Iverson Spit Preserve:        View Map
Follow Iverson Rd to the parking area. Iverson Spit Preserve’s diverse habitat consists of extensive salt water, mudflats, marsh and beach, with shrub and cropland nestled against a forested hillside. Over 130 species of birds have been seen here. Iverson Spit Preserve is on the Great WA State Trail Birding Map, Cascade Loop. River otter and coyote are seen regularly.   

Four Springs Lake Preserve:        View Map
Follow Lewis Lane to the end. This new 50-acre preserve consists of a mixed coniferous-deciduous forest with a lake and extensive wetlands. A 1-mile perimeter trail is available for public use. Bald eagle, pileated woodpecker and wood ducks are common sightings.

Cama Beach State Park:        View Map
This park is not yet open to the public, but has similar habitat to Camano Island State Park.   

Camano Island State Park:        View Map
This park has several hiking trails that take in the diversity of the park habitats, including mixed coniferous-deciduous forest, wetland and extensive salt water (Saratoga Passage). Bald eagle, Harlequin ducks, loons, pileated woodpecker and mixed flocks of chickadees, kinglets and creepers are common.  

Birding Around Stanwood

Big Ditch:        View Map
At end of Big Ditch Access Rd off Old Pacific Highway. Excellent in winter for wintering raptors and snow geese. Snowy owls are often winter visitors. Conservation permit required.    

Stanwood Mitigated Wetlands:        View Map
Located west of Heritage Park. Good for ducks, great blue herons, raptors and eventually passerines (when the newly planted vegetation grows larger). 

Thomle and Boe Road:        View Map
Located off Marine Dr, south of Stanwood, on the Stillaguamish Delta. The main attractions in winter are snow geese, wintering raptors, and sparrows in the thickets along Thomle Rd.