In a message dated 7/18/2000 4:13:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Hughbirder at aol.com writes:

<< I just got back from two days visiting my son in Cannon Beach. I counted
at
least 16 Horned Puffins in the grassy areas on the north face of Haystack
Rock. >>

Hugh -

Do you mean TUFTED PUFFINS? Horned Puffins are extremely rare in these
parts, especially 16. Last weekend a single HORNED PUFFIN was identified but
not relocated in Lincoln County, Oregon, south of Haystack.

Good Birding,

Trent Bray
Corvallis, OR


"I'd rather be lucky than good."

- Robert Behrstock, Costa Rica 1998