Today I made my way around some places here in Lewis County. I started at the Cowlitz Trout Hatchery, then moved on to the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery, Mayfield Lake County Park, Ike Kinswa State Park, Swofford Pond, West end of Riffe Lake, Mossyrock Park, Cowlitz Wildlife Area by the Mossyrock Dam, and finished at Mayfield Dam. Birding was overall slow, and numbers of waterfowl seemed way down. Hunting season just ended so maybe the ducks with start to regather later.

Cowlitz Trout Hatchery:
Bufflehead - 22
Lesser Scaup - 5
Hooded Merganser - 12
Belted Kingfisher - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8
Varied Thrush - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Golden-crowne Kinglet - 10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1

Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery:
Lesser Scaup - 8
Common Goldeneye - 16
Barrow's Goldeneye - 3 (low number for this area)
Bufflehead - 20
Common Merganser - 10
Bald Eagle - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1

Mayfield County Park:
Greater Scaup - 5

Ike Kinswa State Park:
Pileated Woodpecker - 2
Western Grebe - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6
Winter Wren - 12

Swofford Pond:
Bufflehead - 11
Common Merganser - 16
Ring-necked Duck - 97
American Wigeon - 4

West end of Riffe Lake, Mossyrock Park, and Cowlitz Wildlife Area by Mossyrock Dam:
American Dipper - 1
Western Grebe - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Fox Sparrow - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2

Mayfield Dam:
Bald Eagle - 1
Western Grebe - 12
Ameircan Wigeon - 2

Dave Hayden
dtvhm AT nwrain.com
Centralia, WA