Birds

BAT Results: '94-'10;
'10: Table

CBC Results: '04, '05, '06, '07, '08, '09: Table; Summary, 1975-2009

"Our Birds" (Gazette)

Checklist

Checklist Uses

Bird Sightings
Spring, 2009
Winter, 2008-9
Fall, 2008
Summer, 2008
Spring, 2008
Winter, 2007-8
Fall, 2007
Summer, 2007
Spring, 2007
Winter, 2006-7
Summer, 2006
Late Spring, 2006
Spring, 2006
Winter, 2005-6
Fall, 2005
Summer, 2005
Spring, 2005
Winter, 2004-5
Fall, 2004
Spring, 2004

Birding Locations

Status of WA Birds


Copyright © Daniel Poleschook

Birds on the North Olympic Peninsula

As you may know, the Blue Grouse was split into Sooty Grouse (ours) and Dusky Grouse.  The names Sooty Grouse and Blue Grouse are mixed in the documents mentioned below, both referencing the same species. Don't let this confuse you. For more info, see the discussion at the bottom of this page.

For more information on our local birds, follow the links to the left:

• Birdathon (BAT) results for 2008; also a table of results for 1994-2008.
• Christmas Bird Count (CBC) results for 2004-08 -- Bob Boekelheide's articles, plus complete tallys -- and a sizable table showing counts for 33 years: 1975 through 2008 (the 1990 count was cancelled due to an ice storm). Please be patient while the table loads.
• "Our Birds" captures our new (as of Sept, 2007) monthly series of columns, which run under that banner in the Sequim Gazette. The monthly column appears in the Gazette on the third Wednesday of each month. I post it on this website at least one week after if appears in the Gazette.
• Online version of the pocket-sized bird checklist available at the Dungeness River Audubon Center. The checklist features sublists by habitat, seasonal subsets of common birds (for newcomers and beginning birders), and direct links to details of bird families and species, and abundance maps for breeding birds and winter populations (at BirdWeb for bird families and the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center for the others).
• Bird Sightings -- Bob Boekelheide's series of articles, which appear in our newsletter. (This series was cancelled as of Sept., 2009, due to lack of interest from the readers of these pages. His articles continue in the newsletter, available as PDFs on this website, under News.)
• Birding Locations -- where to look locally and what birds to look for.
• Status of Washington’s Birds -- declining populations.

We have the Sooty Grouse in our area, the Dusky Grouse living exclusively east of the Cascades. Sibley nicely covers both in his big field guide, which has been around for years.

Eventually I plan to phase out the Blue Grouse name on this website. Please be patient in the interim. If you find a problem, such as a broken link, in trying to navigate beyond the current Blue Grouse resource page -- (www.olympicpeninsulaaudubon.org/shell.php?page=birds_res_2970, which is normally reached via one of the checklists -- please send me (Dave J) the details, so that I can resolve the problem. Thanks in advance.