Oregon: Bird Eye Views

Bird watching is one of the fastest growing outdoor sports in America, and there is nothing more exciting than camping in Oregon to go bird watching on the Oregon Coast.
There are over 450 different kinds of birds on the Oregon Coast alone. Depending on how much time you have you can concentrate on one of the four coastal areas or extend your camping in Oregon trip to visit all four. They are the North Coast, Central Coast, South Coast, and California Redwoods.

Start planning your camping in Oregon birding vacation by checking out the dozens of tent and RV camping areas that line the Oregon Coast. All of the Oregon State Parks make good choices. Make a reservation online or by phone. Then gather all of the camping gear you need for camping in Oregon. Rent an RV or get a tent, sleeping bag and pad, camp cooking pots and utensils, backpack, hiking boots, rain gear, appropriate clothing for the season, a knife, a first aid kit, some maps of the Oregon Coast, some Oregon birding books, a good pair of binoculars for birding, a camp stove, flashlights, water filtration bottle, and maybe even some night vision optics.

You can spend your entire camping in Oregon vacation exploring parts of the Oregon Coast Birding Trail. This is a self-guided birding tour of the coast that identifies 173 hot birding spots from northern Oregon all the way down the coast to northern California. Not only will you be camping in Oregon in the middle of the great Pacific Northwest but the Oregon Coast Birding Trail is on the Pacific Flyway, where you can watch thousands and thousands of birds migrating in every season. Most spectacular are the spring and fall shorebird and warbler migrations.
Camping in Oregon can be done at dozens of state parks, private campgrounds and RV resorts. Start your birding journal on day one and then as you rest in your tent each night you can go over the birds you have identified and the ones you have seen but still need to identify using a birding guidebook. You can take a boat tour to view birds nesting on islands or go even farther out into the Pacific to spot pelagic birds. You might have the good fortune to spot a Tufted Puffin, Black Oystercatcher, cormorants, auklets, or even a Marbled Murrelet.
While camping in Oregon there is nothing more exciting than checking out beaches, tide pools, estuaries and dunes to discover shorebirds. You can sit on the rocks for hours just watching shorebirds with your binoculars. You could catch sight of Killdeer or the Western Snowy Plover, There are many magnificent birds of prey that live on the Oregon Coast, such as the Bald Eagle, Osprey and Barn Owl. That’s right. Camping in Oregon might put you in just the right spot to see your very first American Bald Eagle. That is one sight you will never forget and something you will be excited to tell your friends about when you get back home from camping in Oregon.