Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge

Phone:
+1 360-753-9467

Address:
Hoquiam, WA 98550, USA

Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge is located within Grays Harbor, at the mouth of the Chehalis River, which makes up the second largest watershed in Washington. It is one of four major staging areas for migrating shorebirds in the Pacific Flyway. Up to one million shorebirds gather here in spring and fall to feed and rest.Grays Harbor is designated as a Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network Site, recognizing this internationally significant shorebird habitat. Although the refuge occupies only two percent of the intertidal habitat of Grays Harbor, it hosts up to 50 percent of the shorebirds that stage in the estuary. As many as 24 species of shorebirds use Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge, with the most abundant species being western sandpiper and dunlin. Semipalmated plover, least sandpiper, red knot, and black-bellied plover are also common during migration. The refuge is also used by peregrine falcon, bald eagle, northern harrier, Caspian tern, great blue heron, songbirds, and a variety of waterfowl.The accessible boardwalk offers a means to develop and implement interpretation and education programs for the more than one million travelers that pass by each year on their way through the gateway to the Olympic Peninsula.
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Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge for Birds near Hoquiam, WA

This would be a great path to bicycle. Unfortunately, they don't want people bicycling on it. It can get a little disrupting especially if there are a lot of people there.

There are some beautiful song birds to listen to. My audio does not do their songs any justice. The place isn't too populated with songbirds, so you need to pay attention when they get close.

To get here, you have to go by an old airport.

Drive from Aberdeen Walmart to Hoquiam Library; Washington

Aberdeen and Hoquiam figure prominently in Nevil Shute's post-Apocalyptic novel On the Beach.

I copied and pasted this story into the video as well. The drive was sort of boring, so I decided to use the road more as background for posting the plot of the story, which I got off Wikipedia.

The nuclear threat may not be as scary now, since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989. Thank Charlie Wilson. But you can imagine living in the moment with all the uncertainty going on at the time. We currently live with similar daily uncertainty ourselves.

The story is supposed to be relevant to the area. I think the area looks nice and a nuclear disaster here may not be so much of a threat.

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