Myrtle Beach State Park
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[edit] Directions
From Myrtle Beach drive 3 miles south of downtown Myrtle Beach on US 17 Business 17. Look for the park sign on the left.
[edit] Birds to look for
Lesser Scaup (w), Surf Scoter (w), Black Scoter (w), Bufflehead (w), Red-breasted Merganser (w), Red-throated Loon (w), Common Loon (w), Horned Grebe (w), Northern Gannet (w), Brown Pelican, Double-crested Cormorant, Willet, Ruddy Turnstone, Red Knot, Sanderling, Western Sandpiper (w), Dunlin (w), Short-billed Dowitcher, Laughing Gull, Bonaparte’s Gull (w), Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull (w), Great Black-backed Gull (w), Royal Tern, Sandwich Tern (s), Least Tern (s), Eurasian Collared-Dove, Red-headed Woodpecker, Blue-headed Vireo (w), Veery (spring, fall), Gray-cheeked Thrush (spring, fall), Swainson’s Thrush (spring, fall), Orange-crowned Warbler (w), Nashville Warbler (fall), Northern Parula (s), Yellow Warbler (fall), Chestnut-sided Warbler (fall), Magnolia Warbler (fall), Cape May Warbler (spring, fall), Black-throated Blue Warbler (spring, fall), Yellow-rumped Warbler (w), Black-throated Green Warbler (spring, fall), Yellow-throated Warbler (s), Pine Warbler, Prairie Warbler (fall), Blackpoll Warbler (spring), Black-and-white Warbler (w), American Restart (spring, fall), Worm-eating Warbler (spring, fall), Ovenbird (spring, fall), Northern Waterthrush (spring, fall), Connecticut Warbler (fall), Hooded Warbler (s), Summer Tanager (s), Scarlet Tanager (spring, fall), Eastern Towhee, Savannah Sparrow (w), Rose-breasted Grosbeak (spring, fall), Painted Bunting (s)
[edit] Description
Myrtle Beach State Park has a fishing pier, some beach, dune scrub, and oak – pine forest. While you can see a few common seabirds along the beach or from the fishing pier, the real attraction of this park is its woods. The forest here is an island of wilderness in a great sea of beach-side development. It is one of the better spots along the South Carolina coast for finding passerine migrants, especially during the fall migration. It makes a good companion site to Huntington Beach State Park, about 14 miles to the south.
