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The sand was a lot lower than in 2015, but there was enough in the front of the cave to be able to walk inside.
I saw Elizabeth framing Haystack Rock with her fingers and got the idea to capture it, and I think it really works
Tide pools in front of Haystack Rock about an hour after low tide. Took me a moment or three to identify the 'khaki net thing over the rock wonder why it was put there" lol.
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Taken just as a small wave washed through. Just enough sand had built up to be able to walk into the cave.
Sunset at Cannon Beach's Needles
Cannon Beach, Oregon
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The Needles seastack in Cannon Beach, OR makes a nice frame for the setting sun on this fine spring evening.
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I saw my first lunar rainbow on the way to the cape on Friday. It was super cool. As many times as I have visited Kiwanda, I more times than not come away with a smile on my face and some potential keepers. One of Aaron Reeds awesome shots inspired me to capture sunrise from this vantage. Flowers will be filling our lenses for weeks to come. I hope to meet and visit with some photogs in the field this season.
This series of shots are all a part of the same day, including the snow in the Coast Range as we drove out to the Oregon Coast on this most interesting March day.
I keep returning to this night at Cannon Beach. Such a beautiful sunset... Just a perfect night with Donna and the kids.
A northern Oregon coast sunset breaks through the clouds at Cannon Beach, with Haystack Rock in the distance, Aug. 23, 2024. USFWS photo: Toshio Suzuki
Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge includes 1,853 rocks, reefs and islands, stretching from Tillamook Head near Seaside south to the California border.
All of the rocks and islands of the refuge are designated National Wilderness Areas, with the exception of 1-acre Tillamook Rock.
Most of Oregon’s estimated 1.2 million nesting seabirds use Oregon Islands Refuge as a place to raise their young, and Oregon’s seals and sea lions use the islands as a place to haul out and rest or to give birth to their pups.
More about the refuge: www.fws.gov/refuge/oregon-islands
Left Seaside for Tillamook, today. Started out nice and sunny, but ended up in a torrential storm, 25 mph headwind, and a flat 5 miles from my destination!
Soaked and cold. Definitely my worst day so far.
Finally a sunset that wasn't ruined by the thick layer of fog/clouds that seems to live miles off shore here! I've been waiting all week for a night like this, and last night was it!
Good thing I snapped lots of shots, because my favorite layer of crap is back and killed any hopes of a repeat tonight =(
Still I can be thankful for being in a great place to grab some goodies last night, and this one isn't even an HDR! Believe that!!
So, my photo skills aren't good enough for what I had this morning which was "a lot of Tufted Puffins flying around the rock very quickly, not so many roosting where I could see them, most of them seeming to be landing on the ocean side of the rock. So I took a bajillion photos and made collages out of the more interesting ones.
Here are (clockwise from top left)
1) a pair of puffins flying away from the rock. The puffins did not seem to be particularly traveling together, but looking at the cumulative photos I got I think that there were a lot of "onesies" and "pairs" going around.
2) A pair of puffins roosting on the rock, near the top, who had good luck with the photo (relatively).
3) Gull photobombing a single puffin near the top of the rock. No worse interactions that I could see. The gulls and puffins were all flying around the rock quite happily (not interfering) as were some of the Pelagic Cormorants - which last I didn't get any keep-worthy photos this time.
4) Better photo of the single puffin near the top of the rock. This is the only photo I got that really shows those interesting ridges on the beak.
5) Two puffins - the lower on approach to a landing site on the other side of the rock (probably near the top :-) ). The upper was doing a fly-by, I didn't get any chance to guess if they were "together" or even going to the same place. This was after the tide started coming in and a fair number looked to be landing "for a while, perhaps".
A sad photo. My friend and I found this pile of dead birds on the beach, a block or two south of Haystack Rock, halfway between the low-water line (it was near low tide) and the top of the beach. Western Gulls are on the beach all the time and it is not hard to imagine a dog or (determined) cat preying on one - but this whole pile .... and some of them are Common Murres which as far as I know never walk on the beach but tend to either fly, swim or stand on high rocks... that I don't understand. My friend thought possibly "birdshot", I later thought "or maybe a person harassing birds with a drone. Or maybe a bald eagle - who could easily prey on these birds - but would they build a pile of prey on the middle of the beach? I don't know. I'm going to see if I can find out and if I need to send this photo to Anyone for Documentation of Something Not Good.