Birding spots · Washington

Best Birding Spots in Pierce County, Washington

Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park leads Pierce County's birding spots with 206 species reported, best in fall. 145 spots in the county have enough data to rank.

Species counts are birds reported at least three times in that season at that spot, 2016–2025. Busy spots list more species simply because more people look, so compare the checklist counts. Spot names come from public map data and hotspot listings.

Spot	Species	Checklists	Winter	Spring	Summer	Fall
Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park	206	4,257	105	147	112	170
Titlow Lagoon	153	2,415	95	119	101	113
Gog-le-hi-te Wetlands	149	1,780	85	126	68	107
Old Fort Lake	147	478	78	129	85	90
Flett Creek Holding Basin	141	1,037	81	127	83	86
Steilacoom Waterway	141	850	74	84	85	94
Fort Steilacoom Park	138	1,310	85	118	94	104
Point Defiance Park	131	933	74	100	72	93
Browns Point	128	939	80	70	63	98
N Levee Road Park	127	1,897	73	80	79	87
Chambers Bay	115	429	67	76	61	51
Chambers Lake	114	203	46	101	68	22
Point Defiance Park (northwest)	112	446	40	64	61	90
Pond Lake	109	167	41	85	67	40
Loth150	106	230	72	76	36	54
Farrell Marsh Park	105	444	53	95	74	61
Chambers Creek Reservoir	104	281	55	92	66	41
Edmond Marsh	104	204	51	96	71	52
Calistoga Place Park	102	259	44	85	85	23
Fife Interurban Trail Head	102	248	47	78	66	63
Hodge Lake	102	124	51	87	77	60
Swan Creek County Park	101	461	49	92	68	65
Lost Lake	100	1,386	7	35	93	68
Penrose Point	100	521	64	65	50	60
Wapato Park	100	474	58	73	61	60
Dash Point Park	99	498	65	68	23	80
Brandenburg Marsh	99	239	36	92	47	22
Old Tacoma	97	561	57	59	26	74
Loth119	97	518	66	75	53	51
Mount Rainier National Park	95	711	0	0	80	65
Ruston Way Area 4 [Between Assarco and Cummings] Park	94	627	74	56	34	55
Fox Island Sand Spit	94	352	73	68	23	57
Puyallup Waterway	93	489	43	48	49	63
Point Defiance Park (Dalco Passage)	93	303	47	46	54	50
Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge (Jansen Hill)	93	232	64	58	21	49
Point Defiance Park (Ruston)	90	443	53	62	50	56
Joemma Beach	90	271	47	58	35	51
University of Puget Sound	88	484	46	69	30	57
Bradley Lake Park	87	362	46	63	47	52
Naches Trail Preserve	87	177	35	65	63	47
Purvis Ponds	86	115	36	67	55	21
Mount Rainier National Park (Longmire)	85	453	7	55	72	26
Von Geldern Cove	85	139	63	58	28	40
Hylebos Waterway	83	226	36	47	36	56
Loth223	83	67	17	72	56	5
360 Project	81	138	43	69	63	47
Olympic-Willapa Hills-South Puget Sound Wildlife Area Complex (Steilacoom Creek)	79	201	50	57	45	35
Johnson Marsh	79	56	8	70	25	0
Snake Lake (Greenspace)	78	316	36	58	54	33
Sehmel Homestead Park	77	186	24	63	61	42