From the depths of the sea- and computer storage ('spring cleaning)...
Here's a little video I rediscovered, and posted for a friend who has never seen an ocean, and asked...
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White Pelicans and Black Skimmers
I've posted several photos of BROWN pelicans, which are growing numerous again after near-extinction...
I posted a photo the other day of a brown pelican in flight,& added it to my Birds web page. I noticed I have zero photos of WHITE pelicans, a different (and rarer) sight for me, and tending to stay further away from people, as here.
On this occasion, a whole flock of black skimmers decided to photo-bomb the scene, happily for me.
More bird photos in an album on flickr [https://bit.ly/flickrbirds]
Pleased to discover that the thumbnail to the flickr album has (pora* gods willing) a nice interface so that you can see a slide show (in miniature size) right on the page, &/or go to the site to see full size with captions, description, exif info, etc.
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Fly like an ... a, Pelican!
Pretty strong fliers, actually.
Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
Venice, FL
More birds nesting "here", in my flickr album, and in my online rookery/collection @ www.fenichel.com/birds
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My Photography - 'The Disagreement'
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Bonjour tout le monde, je suis #nouveauici. Je m'intéresse à #arduino, #électronique, #fossil, #microcontroleur, #microcontroller, #pelican, #permaculture-jardin, #pluxml, #python-fanboy, #raspberrypi, #robots-and-robotics, #jazz, #rythm'n-blues et #terraforming.
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Well,... I originally went to visit my beautiful friend Hank yesterday.... but she was resting... Here's another photo...
Lake Merritt / March 30, 2015
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My lovely friend Hank was strutting around today.. She had an audience..
and she was enjoying the attention!
Lake Merritt / March 30, 2015
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Today I met a regal creature. I finally came face to face with Hank... Strangely enough, I was thinking of her yesterday... wondering when she will appear at the lake.. and there she was... For sometime she was mistaken as a male (hence the name). It suits her, as she is quite a character.
I had seen her in the water at a distance in the past.. but coming up so close to her today at only a few feet away, I was shocked at how large she was! She stood with a fixed gaze.. taking a few steps back, a few steps forward, look away, pose... Magnificent!
In 2004 Hank flew into a power line in Oregon, and was rescued. After it was determined she would not be able to fly again, she wound up in Oakland, at Lake Merritt's Rotary Nature Center. She is a strong swimmer, walker, and the biggest bird at the lake.
She has attracted free-flying white pelicans, which apparently never happened before her arrival. For the first three years in her new home, Hank was the only American white pelican on the lake. Then she got a visitor, a white pelican that would stay for a couple months at a time during the migratory season. After about a year, two more started showing up and then over the course of the last five and a half years, the population of American white pelicans has grown to between 13 and 23 pelicans.
So.. you can say Hank is not just Lake Merritt's most famous pelican, she rules!
It was an honour Hank ~ Hope to see you soon again!
White Pelicans are one of North America’s largest birds and have an 8-9 foot wing span. They are pure white with just black wing tips and a large yellow-orange bill. During breeding season, they have pale yellow crests and a flat rounded horn-like growth on the ridge of their bill. This growth is only found during breeding season and is shed after their eggs have been laid.
Lake Merritt / March 25, 2015
