Birdwatching Platform

The park provides excellent opportunities for bird watching and affords a lovely walking atmosphere. A 132 ha (325 ac) salt water marsh behind the beach is very popular with birdwatchers since many different species can be seen there.

A new birdwatching platform provides birders with an ideal opportunity to view the marsh's inhabitants : Sharp-tailed sparrows, Willets and a variety of migratory species.

Common birds found throughout July and August
• D.C. Cormorant
• American Bittern
• Great Blue Heron
• Canada Goose
• Green-winged Teal
• American Black Duck
• Mallard
• Ring-necked Duck
• Osprey
• Northern Harrier
• Red-tailed Hawk
• American Kestrel
• Black-bellied Plover • Killdeer
• Willet
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Least Sandpiper
• Short Billed Dowitcher
• Common Snipe
• Ring-billed Gull
• Herring Gull
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Common Tern
• Arctic Tern
• Belted Kingfisher
• American Crow
• American Robin
• European Starling
• Yellow Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Savannah Sparrow
• Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• Swamp Sparrow
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Common Grackle
• Tree Swallow
• Barn Swallow

Potential Surprises found in the marshes
• Great Egret
• Snowy Egret
• Little Blue Heron
• Tricoloured Heron
• Cattle Egret
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Green Heron
• Glossy Ibis
• Bank Swallow
• Cliff Swallow











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