<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hey tweets, our oldest son Alex has just returned from a sea kayak trip he made along the Oregon coast. He reports finding large colonies of nesting Common Murres and Pigeon Guillemots, among other wonderful birds. If you would like to read about these colonies, here is a link to his trip report:<div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://alexsidles.com/trip-reports/cape-kiwanda-cape-lookout-cape-falcon-31-july-2-aug-2024"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://alexsidles.com/trip-reports/cape-kiwanda-cape-lookout-cape-falcon-31-july-2-aug-2024" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://alexsidles.com/trip-reports/cape-kiwanda-cape-lookout-cape-falcon-31-july-2-aug-2024" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">Kayaking Trip Report: Cape Kiwanda, Cape Lookout, & Cape Falcon, North Coast, Oregon 31 July–2 Aug 2024 — Alex Sidles Kayaking Trips</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://alexsidles.com/trip-reports/cape-kiwanda-cape-lookout-cape-falcon-31-july-2-aug-2024" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">alexsidles.com</font></a></div></div></td><td style="padding:6px 12px 6px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-rightIconItem" width="36"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://alexsidles.com/trip-reports/cape-kiwanda-cape-lookout-cape-falcon-31-july-2-aug-2024" draggable="false"><img style="pointer-events:none !important;display:inline-block;width:36px;height:36px;border-radius:3px;" width="36" height="36" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-rightIcon" alt="favicon.ico" src="cid:0F61B90F-8E04-4C4B-9373-A103B782D2D7"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>I for one am always glad to hear any reports or stories about avian abundance. I love rarities as much as anyone - and I chase, too, with life-changing observations of bird diversity. But I think that we humans tend to value the rare above the common. We're a funny species in that regard. You won't catch a cow walking miles out of her way to find that one blade of unusual grass. She'd rather find a whole field of very common grass, as would most other animals. I like to remind myself that we should value highly the everday birds and the nature we find all around us, too. Now, where did you say that Red-footed Booby was last seen??- Connie, Seattle</div></body></html>