Catching a big feeding is all about timing. Or luck.
Timing comes into play when you are familiar with the tides, times, close locations to stand.
Luck is when your partner remembers it.
Brown Pelicans following the fish.
Pelican Dive
Catching a big feeding is all about timing. Or luck.
Timing comes into play when you are familiar with the tides, times, close locations to stand.
Luck is when your partner remembers it.
Brown Pelicans following the fish.
Nice capture of the sequence, Ted. It looks like there’s a pretty big splash when the pelican hits the water. Wow!
It’s crazy, both the height and speed hitting the water. If they don’t turn their head last minute a broken neck is guaranteed. Their throat, neck, and other bones are actually offset. In a few weeks we’re are going out to a Pelican rookery island. It’s become a yearly adventure with the same conservation group we travel with (tomorrow into the Congaree old wood forests).
Love watching these guys dive!
Oh yeah !!! If you ever have a chance, and at Ding Darling, literally right before going over the bridge to Ft. Meyers there is a pull of over. Changing tide has tons of these guys diving directly in front of you. Shoot at about 200mm. 😁😁
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