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Puffins Return to Haystack Rock

Haystack Rock is home to the largest on-shore Tufted Puffin population in the continental United States and they are returning now to Cannon Beach. The Puffins are just one more reason to love Cannon Beach. The Tufted Puffin circus — truly,  the group is called a “circus” — spends summers at Haystack Rock.  The birds breed and raise their young

Puffins Return to Haystack Rock

Capistrano may have its swallows, but Cannon Beach has its puffins. Each spring, puffins that have spent the last eight months floating and diving on the open seas of the Pacific Ocean return to Cannon Beach’s Haystack Rock to lay eggs and raise their chicks. Puffins nest on Haystack Rock from April through July and are best viewed now through July. Almost