What a wonderfull bird is the Pelican

His beak holds more food than his belly can
He can stuff in his beak
Enough food for a week
I wonder how the hell he can?


Went to Wyndham-Carseland Provincial Park on a lark. Found out there are a pile of Pelicans there, mainly because of the weir, methinks. They sit there waiting for the fish to flip up, so it seems ... anyway, here's a bunch of them


During the breeding period they develop this funny "rudder" on their beaks ... and I though this was to keep them straight while flying ...

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There's four of them

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This one's taking off ...

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this one shows me how much he/she thinks of me ...

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incoming ....

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Just cruisin' .....

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checking for supper ....

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just wanna see if I can get my belly wet ....

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Nice set Matt. Really likin' the take-off, but that head-on shot is awesome. Well done on all. Btw, really like the narrative also.

very cool captures, really like #3

Very cool series. The in flight shot are fabulous.

Nice find. I like the group shot and the second last in-air shot. Very stately birds for being so awkward looking.

Great set.Specially like 1,2,5 and 6.

Hey thanks all for the kind words .... they are clumsy bird, for sure .. but they do fly very gracefully

One of my all time favorite birds...Very nice captures:thumbup:

lovely set! - faves are shots 2 and 3

Wonderful set. # 2 & 6 are my favs