We heard it first. A Peregrine Falcon bringing dinner back to the family. We never saw the chicks but the falcon posed beautifully for us once it finished its parental duties. They have striking markings on their face. We had just headed back to the highway when we spotted a Bald Eagle circling overhead. He stayed pretty high but with binoculars we got a great look. All this at the end of our visit to the tide pools and lighthouse (the tallest lighthouse on the Oregon coast and one with docents in period costume) at Yaquina Head. They claim to have the largest colony of nesting Common Murre on the off-shore rocks. They look just like mini penguins. Cute, but in these quantities we smelled them before we saw them!