West Island State Park

West Island State Reservation

The 338 acre reservation is owned by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation. An educational poster at the park entrance describes the reservation as a habitat for common and rare resident and migratory bird species. The land includes salt marshes, brackish ponds, mud flats, rocky headlands, wetlands, hardwood forests and sandy beaches. In 1996, five acres of the land was set aside for a state of the art tertiary leaching area for the treatment plant to address the island's waste water issues. The land was acquired in 1988, from Realty Transfer of New Jersey for $1.6 million.

The group Save West Island formed in 1987 was the leading force in obtaining the site for a preservation park.

TICK ADVISORY POSTED BY THE FAIRHAVEN BOARD OF HEALTH: CLICK HERE.

Southeastern Massachusetts Birds

Bird sightings by members of Nasketucket and Paskamansett Bird Clubs

THE BIRDS OF WEST ISLAND

(see some sunset views of West Island and its birds here)

Osprey	Least Tern	Double-creasted Cormorant	Grackle	Gray Catbird	Least Sandpiper
Mourning Dove	Great Black- backed Gull	Tree Swallow	Ruddy Turnstone	Ruddy Turnstone	American Goldfinch
American Oystercatcher	Sanderlings	Song Sparrow	Semipalmated Plover	Greater Yellowlegs	Willet
Least Sandpiper	Snowy Egret	Great Egret	Great Blue Heron	Mocking- bird	Dunlin
Lapland Longspur	Snow Bunting	Common Loon	Red Breasted Merganser	Cooper's Hawk	Common Eider
Bonaparte's Gull	Horned Lark	American Tree Sparrows	Brant	Deer	Coyotes