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FRIDAYEXTRA ! The Daily Astorian Friday, May 15, 2015 Weekend Edition THE COASTAL EDGE NEAL MAINE — PacificLight Images An osprey delivers a trout to the Broadway Park nest in Seaside. By NEAL MAINE AND MICHAEL WING 3DFL¿F/LJKW,PDJHV I n cycles older than time, forces deep within the earth push apart tecton- ic plates, creating and expanding the oceans whose waters are pushed and pulled by the sun and moon, cooled and heated and calmed and stirred to fury by the skies. Ocean collides with continent shattering the shore into a thousand facets: bare rock monoliths, vast expanses of sand, saltwater pools that drown, then drain, then drown, then drain. And in that shattering, life as- serts itself, creeping and burrowing and swimming and perching in particular nich- HVSDUWLFXODUÀRUDDQGIDXQDZKRVHFROOHF- WLYHSUHVHQFHGH¿QHVWKHFRDVWDOHGJH 1HDO 0DLQH WDXJKW ELRORJ\ DW 6HD- VLGH +LJK 6FKRRO IRU \HDUV DQG ZDV D IRXQGLQJ PHPEHU RI WKH 1RUWK &RDVW /DQG&RQVHUYDQF\+HQRZZRUNVZLWKKLV JUDQGVRQ 0LFKDHO :LQJ DW 3DFL¿F/LJKW ,PDJHVDSDUWQHUVKLSGHGLFDWHGWRUDLVLQJ SXEOLF DZDUHQHVV DERXW WKH UHJLRQ¶V QDWX- UDO UHVRXUFHV WKURXJK QDWXUH SKRWRJUDSK\ 3KRWRJUDSKV DUH DYDLODEOH DW )DLUZHDWKHU +RXVH *DOOHU\ %URDGZD\ LQ 6HD- VLGH$SRUWLRQRIWKHVDOHVLVWRWKH1RUWK &RDVW/DQG&RQVHUYDQF\ MICHAEL WING — PacificLight Images A female hummingbird flies near the Necanicum River in Seaside. NEAL MAINE — PacificLight Images A female rufous hummingbird collects nesting material from a cattail.