On water smooth as glass sentinels stand on mirrored floors as they float on life's illusion.

No, this is not trick photography or digital editing, but me taking a picture with sun behind the object. I like the surreal quality, however, and it's one of my favorites. "Haystack Rock" is the breeding home of four species of sea birds: Tufted Puffins, Pelagic Cormorants, Pigeon Guillemots, and Western Gulls. The gulls nest up high on the rock using exposed nests. The puffins nest in burrows high on the north and northwest sides of the rock. The guillemots nest down quite low in cracks and crevasses. The cormorants stick their nests to small ledges medium high on the south side.