Key Birding Sites
While at the moment we do not provide a map of these sites we suggest you use the Provincial Map provided at most tourist centres and supplement with Google Maps
1) Renews-Cappahayden Area
Bear Cove Point Road, Renews especially the major alder thickets along the road; this includes the mixed forest vegetation at the start of the road, Bear Cove Point Light grounds and adjacent ocean
Village of Renews especially on the north side
Interior Harbour and Tern Island
South side exterior beach, separating interior harbour from outer harbour, and adjoining low tide flats
Outer harbour
Bear Cove Interpretive Site, Bear Cove beach and ocean, the large gravel pit (opposite)
Alder thicket along old road on the ocean side of Route 10 from 200- 500 m north of Murphy Road, Cappahayden (known as the Cappahayden Track; also major alder thicket on west side of the road about 200 m north of Murphy Road
Murphy Road, Cappahayden, and at the end ATV access track north to Murphy’s Point
Hamlet of Cappahayden, ocean near the Floriziel Monument
Alder thickets on along both sides of Route 10 just south of Cappahayden
Alders in old gravel pit about .5kms south at Memorial site
2) Chance Cove Provincial Park
Access Road
Old East Coast Trail: south off access road about 1 km before parking lot (just before speed sign not well signposted) the first 2 kms to a small pond and return (getting overgrown)
Parking lot area and grassy meadow between parking lot and the beach
Chance Cove beach and bay
Large barachois meadow to the north
Chance Cove Coastal Trail to the south of the parking lot (2 kms out and then return)
3) Village of Portugal Cove South (PCS)
Village and small ponds in town
PCS Beach
Gravel ponds behind the beach and large barachois pond
The ocean rocks at the west end of PCS beach
4) Sites along the Cape Race Road
Daley's Cove: ocean viewing before road rises to The Drook
The Drook Lookout: ocean view from the top of the road just before The Drook
The Drook: flats, beach & ocean
The Rookery Seabird Colony
Mistaken Point Trail to Fossils (by guided tour only)
Long Beach: flats, sedge marsh, beach & ocean
Tuckamore along the Road beyond Long Beach; Key sites:
Cripple Cove River, Thimble Cove alders on south side about.5 km before Northern Radar Site
Cape Race Lighthouse and surrounds, ocean viewing from old fog horn station and behind Interpretive site
5) Hamlet of Biscay Bay
Biscay Bay
Shingle and sand beach
Triangle Pond: east of the Hamlet between Route 10 and the lower access road
Barachois pond
Old railway line on flats leading to the old bridge and the alder thickets uphill to the east
6) Town of Trepassey and environs:
Route 10 East: Stadium Pond and Fanny's Pond 9just before you enter the town)
Trepassey Beach
Mutton Bay
Tern Rocks opposite the seawall and flats exposed at low tide
Powell's Head Lighthouse Road alders
Lighthouse Grounds and ocean viewing
Trepassey Harbour including Northeast and Northwest Brook channels
Daniel’s Point: Tern Island in the Northwest Channel
Northwest Trepassey: Northwest Circle and roadway east of old bridge
First 2kms of Northwest Brook trail, north from west side of old bridge
Mixed forest for 1.5 kms along Route 10 south from Northwest Circle to Fish Plant Road
Fish Plant Road mixed forest
Alder thickets on the north side of Doran’s Lane especially at the lower end
Alders along Route 10 from Fish Plant Road to top end of Doran’s Lane
7) Trepassey Barrens along Route 10 to Peters River
Caribou Viewing Site
The length of Route 10
8) Cape Pine
Cape Pine Road
Cape Pine Lighthouse and ocean viewing
Arnold’s Cove River and Arnold’s Cove to the west of the Lighthouse
9) Village of St. Shott’s and environs
The whole length of St. Shott's Road
St. Shott’s East Head (Fog Horn), rocks and ocean; up the hill to the left of the harbour
Vegetable Garden just to the east of the Fog Horn Station (Ken’s Cabbages)
St Shott’s beach and bay
St Shott’s River lowlands especially the lower section near the estuary
St. Shott’s Sod Farm, about 3 kms after crossing the bridge near mouth of the river
(this site has been inactive in recent years)
10) Holyrood Bay: Peter’s River, St. Stephen’s and St. Vincent’s
Peters River oceanfront
St. Vincent’s oceanfront
Great shingle beach at St Vincents
St Vincent’s interior barachois beach of Holyrood Pond
Holyrood Pond