Puget Sound's Top Birding Spots

The Puget Sound region and its twelve counties have an abundance of great places to watch birds. Try the many local parks, green belts, or some of these top birding spots:

Clallam Ediz Hook, Dungeness Spit, Dungeness River, Sequim Bay/John Wayne Marina, Olympic National Park (Hurricane Ridge, Deer Park), Diamond Point

Island Crockett Lake, Penn Cove, Admiralty Inlet, Libbey Beach County Park, Deception Pass State Park, Camano Island, Deer Lagoon

Jefferson Port Townsend (Fort Worden State Park, Point Wilson), Marrowstone Island (Fort Flagler State Park), Port
Townsend/Keystone ferry, Protection Island, Quilcene Bay,
Dosewallips State Park, Mount Walker

King Discovery Park, Green Lake, Juanita Bay, Montlake
Fill/Union Bay, Alki Point, Snoqualmie Valley, Stevens Pass,
Snoqualmie Pass, Dash Point State Park, Lake Sammamish State Park

Kitsap Point No Point, Foulweather Bluff Preserve, Rich Passage, Fort Ward State Park, Edmonds-Kingston ferry

Mason Hood Canal, Theler Wetland, Kennedy Creek

Pierce Mount Rainier National Park (Sunrise, Paradise), Fort Lewis, American Lake, Gog-Le-Hi-Te Wetland/Puyallup River mouth, Tacoma waterfront (Ruston Way), Point Defiance Park/Tacoma Narrows

San Juan Orcas Island (Moran State Park/Mount Constitution), San Juan Island (English Camp, American Camp, Cattle Point), inter-island ferry

Skagit Samish Flats, Skagit Flats, Fir Island (Skagit Wildlife Area), Padilla Bay, Anacortes (Washington Park), North Cascades Highway

Snohomish Spencer Island, Stanwood area, Darrington area, Everett sewage ponds, Everett waterfront, Edmonds fishing pier, Crescent Lake Wildlife Area

Thurston Watershed Park (Olympia), Nisqually National
Wildlife Refuge, Capitol State Forest/Black Hills, Budd
Inlet/Olympia waterfront, Black Lake Meadows, Scatter Creek Wildlife Area, Mima Mounds

Whatcom Birch Bay, Semiahmoo Spit, Blaine Marine Park,
Lummi Flats, Larrabee State Park, Tennant Lake (Ferndale), North Cascades Highway, Mount Baker

To find out more about the better places to find birds, order the book, Birds of the Puget Sound Region.