I mean, 5/5 stars. This might be my favorite place in all of Puget Sound, so I could be biased. I'm trying to visit here every season--when we visited last summer it was just as enjoyable with a totally different crop of birds (plus, ducklings everywhere so...). Sharing a few photos and the list of birds we saw below. I've more photos on my blog: https://www.thegreennaturalist.com/post/heaven-on-earth-billy-frank-jr-nisqually-national-wildlife-refuge
Ring-necked Duck
Downy Woodpecker
Mallard
Bufflehead
Marsh Wren
Bushtit
Yellow-crowned Kinglet
American Bald Eagle
Black-capped Chickadee
Spotted Towhee
Brown Creeper
Red-winged Blackbird
Northern Flicker
American Widgeon
Eurasian Widgeon
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
American Coot
Greater Yellowlegs
Green-winged Teal
American Crow
Glaoucous-winged Gull
Ring-billed gull
Northern Harrier

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