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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Arlen on June 20, 2022, 12:45:07 am

Title: Heceta Head
Post by: Arlen on June 20, 2022, 12:45:07 am
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Heceta Head, along with its iconic and historic lighthouse on the mid-Oregon Pacific coast, has one of the most scenic views of the area’s rocky headlands.

(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700449/original.jpg)



Some of the intertidal zone rock formations are small enough to be periodically submerged by breaking waves.

(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700457/original.jpg)



Other seastacks are huge, and some of them attract a variety of seabirds.

(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700453/original.jpg)



The sides of the seastacks are sometimes covered with nesting birds, as they were when I visited the area two weeks ago. The predominant species were black and white common murres,
and the larger, jet black Brandt’s cormorants.

(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700451/original.jpg)



When the angle and the lighting are right, iridescent blue ‘gular pouches’ (skin patches) can be seen on the “chins” below the beaks of breeding cormorants.

(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700454/original.jpg)



Some birds choose to nest on precarious ledges with precipitous drops to the sea below,

(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700455/original.jpg)



where the swirling waters would likely drown any youngsters that stumbled off the edge before they were able to fly.

(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700450/original.jpg)



But the top of the seastack seems to serve as a landing pad, where birds of a feather tend to hang together, and socializing is the main activity. At least that's the way it looked to me.
(click on attached image below)
Title: Re: Heceta Head
Post by: David Eckels on June 20, 2022, 08:48:39 am
VERY well done!
Title: Re: Heceta Head
Post by: kers on June 20, 2022, 09:15:53 am
a paradise for both birds and photographers!

The second one ( water flowing down the rock )  very precise captures the process in one photo.
well done...
Title: Re: Heceta Head
Post by: Arlen on June 21, 2022, 06:08:35 pm
Thank you, David and Pieter. I appreciate the feedback.