Sara German’s “Otto the Owl” (featured at The Farm), won BirdFest-BirdQuest 2023 People’s Choice Award, along with Libby Turella’s “Runner Duck” (displayed at Forage Gifts & NW Treasures) and Kayli Fukunaga’s “Flightless Bird” (featured at 7 Cedars Hotel).

The BirdFest-BirdQuest 2023 Grand Prize Winner was Marge Sladek.

Sponsored by Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce, the 2023 BirdFest-BirdQuest Game ran April 1-30 and challenged participants to find 15 or more of the 20 bird-sculptures from Carmen Maxwell’s Sequim High School’s ceramic class, to the business where they are hidden and vote for their favorite student art piece.

Photo courtesy of BirdFest-BirdQuest / “Flightless Bird” by Kayli Fukunaga

Photo courtesy of BirdFest-BirdQuest / Libby Turella’s “Runner Duck”