Trip Report
Naturalist Trip - Juanita Bay Park
On a beautiful sunny mid-February Tuesday, 11 of us enjoyed 42 bird species including trumpeter swans, bald eagles, wood ducks, and a hooded merganser male that delighted us all.
Courtenay Schurman
- Tue, Feb 10, 2026
- Naturalist Trip - Juanita Bay Park
- Juanita Bay Park
- Naturalist
- Successful
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- Road suitable for all vehicles
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We met just before 8 (despite heavy traffic) and departed the park just after 11. We had some concerns about parking as Municipal workers were installing new water meters in the parking lot, but we arrived early enough to get spaces. Porta Potty is available in the parking lot - I did not check on the restrooms to see whether they were open or closed.
11 of us from the Mountaineers enjoyed sunny, windless conditions and 42 bird species this morning.
We started down the easternmost waterfront boardwalk to enjoy trumpeter swans, green-winged teals, wood ducks and more, and then concluded with two western-most waterfront boardwalks to see buffleheads, bald eagles (including two juveniles), a raft of coots intermixed with gadwalls, and some common mergansers along with a single male hoody. Flickers and downy woodpeckers rounded out our 42 species.
All in all, it was a lovely way to spend a Tuesday morning.
