wow. I can't pass this up! Beautiful. Thanks for posting this and the others - I am now settled on traveling the coast both below and above Cannon Beach.
This is my kinda shot :-) I like it very much. It's only marginally connected tot he challenge topic, which explains its relatively low score vis a vis the quality. For me the bird is a little too centered; I think you have excess area on the left you can whack off to pull the bird over closer to the left edge. I realize you have him right smack on the 1/3 line, but in my experience the 1/3 lines are too far into the image when you do stretched formats; I tend to work closer to a rule of fourths on skinny shots. That's just my opinion though. Nice work!