I started at the Cowlitz Trout Hatchery. This place was justing flitting with birds this morning.
5 Ruby-crowned Kinglets (most were singing)
32 Bufflehead
4 Lesser Scaup
12 Hooded Merganser
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Osprey (flying up river)
2 Spotted Sandpiper
2 Red-breasted Sapsucker
1 Belted Kingfisher
5 Yellow-rumped Warbler
3 Violet-green Swallow
1 Tree Swallow

A quick stop at Mayfield Dam produced;
4 Violet-green Swallow
1 Northern Goshawk (Calling for the hillside across the dam. This was a surprise indeed.)

Mayfield County Park was quiet with;
4 Bufflehead
3 Common Goldeneye

Swofford Pond still has fairly good numbers of waterfowl.
53 Ring-necked Duck
40 Double-crested Cormorant
19 Commen Merganser
13 Lesser Scaup
5 Gadwall
3 Bufflehead
1 Scrub Jay

At the east end of Riffe Lake, before the winds came, I had;
2 Common Goldeneye
1 Common Merganser
1 Common Loon
7 California Gull

As I continued eastward through the windy forest (Cowlitz Wildlife Area), I was able to find;
1 American Dipper at the Cowlitz Falls Dam
2 Pine Siskin and 4 Evening Grosbeak at Leonard Allen Park/Cowlitz Falls Campground

After that, the rain caught up with me, so I finished my day of exploring the Cowlitz Wildlife Area.

I also had 4 American Kestrels along Hwy 12.

Dave Hayden
dtvhm AT nwrain.com
Centralia, WA