Oregon Cascades Birding Trail Mount Hood Loop

Bring your binoculars as you visit the land at the end of the Oregon Trail! Watch surfbirds and black oystercatchers scramble over rocky headlands between crashing waves, as gray whales spout just off the Oregon Coast. Look for Lewis's woodpecker and Clark's nutcracker as you listen to the song of hermit warblers, among majestic pines framing the snowy volcanic peaks of the Cascades. Listen to the murmur of thousands of snow geese as they settle to rest in the tule marshes of the Klamath Basin. Smell blooming sage as the song of Brewer's sparrows fills the warm evening air, in the high deserts of the Basin & Range. Sample marionberries at a fruit stand or taste wine at a vineyard in the lush Willamette Valley, as acorn woodpeckers cavort in oaks that witnessed the first wagon trains.