We started a series of monthly columns about local birds in the Sequim Gazette in September, 2007. They normally appear on the third Wednesday of each month in the Strait Scenes section under the banner "Our Birds." With the Gazette's permission, those columns are reproduced here on the website, a week or so after appearing in the paper. Our versions follow normal bird-community rules of capitalizing bird names, whereas the Gazette follows the Associated Press style, which treats them as lower case.

Columns here may be slightly longer (new contents in brackets) if interesting material had to be trimmed to fit the space constraints of the Gazette. I didn't have room, for example, in my column on Peeps (Oct, 2007) to mention that I was wearing the dreaded white T-shirt, as I would have needed extra space to explain to a general audience why we avoid white when birding. My white shirt didn't seem to bother the peeps one bit. ;-)

Unless otherwise noted, Dave Jackson is the author of the column.

2010

• Birding on the Road (Aug, 2010)
• Finding Birds for Fun and Bucks (July, 2010)
• Our Birdathon Adventure III (June, 2010)
• Spring Warblers Arrive (May, 2010)
• Bird Names: Commemorative to Comical (Apr, 2010)
• Sequim's Winter Singers (Mar, 2010)
• Stalking Sequim Snowbirds (Feb, 2010)
• Inside a Christmas Bird Count (Jan, 2010)

2009

• No Swan Song for Sequim Swans (Dec, 2009)
• How Birds Cope with Deep Snow in the Olympics (Nov, 2009)
• New CDs Draw Interest in Sequim (Oct, 2009)
• Having Fun Doing Science in the Park -- interview with Bob Boekelheide (Sep, 2009)
• Crafty Ravens Enlist Cars as Nutcrackers (Aug, 2009)
• Asian Vagrant Does Stint Near Sequim (Jul, 2009; by Bob Hutchison)
• Fitting Finale to the Fling (Jun, 2009)
• Our Birdathon Adventure II (May, 2009)
• Voices of Spring (Apr, 2009)
• Rufous Hummingbirds Follow the Blooms (Mar, 2009)
• I've Got a Little List (Feb, 2009)
• Merlins in the Olympics -- interview with David Drummond (Jan, 2009)

2008

• Chilly, Chile and Chili (Dec, 2008)
• Fall and Winter Flocks (Nov, 2008)
• Stellar Steller's Jays (Oct, 2008)
• Turkey Vultures Crossing the Strait -- interview with Diann MacRae (Sep, 2008)
• Are You 'Gullable'? (Aug, 2008)
• Swoopers (Jul, 2008)
• Nest Location Matters (Jun, 2008)
• Our Birdathon Adventure (May, 2008)
• Birding by Ear (Apr, 2008)
• Spring Changing of the Guard (Mar, 2008)
• Learning to Identify Birds (Feb, 2008)
• Raptors in Winter (Jan, 2008)

2007

• Snowbirds in Sequim (Dec, 2007)
• Christmas Birds (Nov, 2007)
• Peeps on the Move (Oct, 2007)
• Bald Eagle (Sept, 2007; by Bob Hutchison)